Wounds of Returning

Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation

By:

Jessica Adams

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Series:

New Directions in Southern Studies

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From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery. In ""Wounds of Returning"", Adams shows that the slave past returns to inhabit plantation landscapes that have been radically transformed by tourism, consumer culture, and modern modes of punishment - even those landscapes from which slavery has supposedly been banished completely. Adams explores how the commodification of black bodies during slavery did not disappear with abolition - rather, the same principle was transformed into modern consumer capitalism. As Adams demonstrates, however, counter-narratives and unexpected cultural hybrids erupt out of attempts to re-create the plantation as an uncomplicated scene of racial relationships or a signifier of national unity. Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property.

Author Biography:

Jessica Adams is lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the Southern United States.

Release date NZ

May 30th, 2007

Author

Jessica Adams

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Pages

240

Series

New Directions in Southern Studies

Dimensions

140x216x15

ISBN-13

9780807858011

Product ID

3675609

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