To Remember or Not to Remember

Traumatic Memory and the Legacy of Slavery in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage125en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage141en_US
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume1en_US
dc.contributor.authorVarsam, Maria
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-10T15:02:38Z
dc.date.available2023-02-10T15:02:38Z
dc.date.issued2014en_US
dc.description.abstractToni Morrison’s Beloved and Octavia Butler’s Kindred share many thematic and stylistic conventions which illustrate intertextual connections between the neo-slave narrative and critical dystopias. Moreover, they both focus on the effect of history on the present and the continuing legacy of slavery on social ties, identity and agency. As the article argues, central themes of traumatic history and memory are problematized in these novels through the trope of maternal genealogy and the consequences its severance has on affective relationships, race relations and personal identity. Varsam contends that the violent legacy of slavery is transformed from a central marker of traumatic memory to a reference point of survival and personal and social renewal.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/2827
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00103781-13
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.issn2198-7920en_US
dc.relation.journalBlack Studies Papersen_US
dc.rightsL::CC BY-NC 4.0en_US
dc.subject.ddcddc:810en_US
dc.subject.fieldamericanstudiesen_US
dc.subject.fieldliterarystudiesen_US
dc.titleTo Remember or Not to Rememberen_US
dc.title.alternativeTraumatic Memory and the Legacy of Slavery in Octavia E. Butler’s Kindred and Toni Morrison’s Beloveden_US
dc.title.specialissueSlavery Revisiteden_US
dc.typearticleen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
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