{"product_id":"not-even-past-race-historical-trauma-and-subjectivity-in-faulkner-larsen-and-van-vechten-hardback-9780823231478","title":"Not Even Past; Race, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten (Hardback) 9780823231478","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eNot Even Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDorothy Stringer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823231478\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 2 November 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.484 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA compelling, eminently readable, and lively engagement with trauma\u003cbr\u003e studies, race studies, and psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—Naomi Mandel, \u003ci\u003eUniversity of Rhode Island\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is the beginning of a cultural moment for critical studies of\u003cbr\u003e race and trauma, and Stringer makes a timely and eloquent foray into that\u003cbr\u003e field.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e---—Gwen Bergner, \u003ci\u003eWest Virginia University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot Even Past highlights references to nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen, and portraits by Carl Van Vechten. These texts share a representational crisis, in which distinctions between present, quotidian racism and a massive, fully racialized historical trauma disappear. All identify persistent historical traumatization with intense subjective states (including madness, religious ecstasy, narcissism, and fetishistic enjoyment), and each explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. When the past of enslavement is \"not even past,\" narration freezes, black and white women lose their capacity to question or resist social and domestic violence, and racial politics fail.\u003cbr\u003e Anticipating contemporary trauma studies by decades, these disparate modernists' works constitute not an expounded or avowed but an interstitial trauma theory, which finds its shape in the spaces left by conventional public discourse. Their works parallel important essays by psychoanalytic thinkers of the same era, including Joan Riviere, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Walter Benjamin, and their joint explication of relationships among psyche, history, and race offers important resources for psychoanalytic approaches to racial difference today. \u003cbr\u003e Despite their analytic acuity, however, Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten also themselves carry the traumatic past forward into the future. Indeed, the two novelists' tragic depictions of a triumphant color line and the photographer's insistence on an idiom of black primitivism lent support to white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yet even in their very failure, three U.S. modernists tell us that it is not enough simply to exercise critical acuity on the marks of past violence. Reading, however masterly, cannot interrupt a history in the midst of repeating itself; it can only itself reiterate the disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"American Literatures Initiative","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580238917912,"sku":"9780823231478","price":39.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/not-even-past-race-historical-trauma-and-subjectivity-in-faulkner-larsen-and-van-vechten-hardback-9780823231478","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}