Archive of Fear - White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois

The Archive of Fear explores the trauma theory in relation to U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition before and after the Civil War.

List of contents

• Introduction: When Hegel Falls Silent


• 1: Crisis and Rehearsal in Frederick Douglass: The Archive of the Interrupted Lecture


• Interlude: Moving Things


• 2: Who's Afraid of Virginia's Nat Turner? Mesmerism, Stowe, and the Terror of Things


• 3: "More than Lynched": Du Bois, John Brown, and the Black Reconstruction of Democracy


• Postlude: Reconstructions in Analysis

About the author

Christina Zwarg is a Professor of English at Haverford College where she won a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. After completing a Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities at Harvard University she published Feminist Conversations: Fuller, Emerson and the Play of Reading, which Choice named an Outstanding Academic Book and Cornell University Press nominated for the MLA First Book Award. Zwarg has published on 19th and 20th century authors and topics in American Literature, American Literary History, Novel, Studies in Romanticism, Poe Studies, and Cultural Critique and Social Text, and her work has been reprinted in Norton Critical Editions. She has also served as a member of the Division of Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature on the Delegate Assembly of the MLA.

Summary

The Archive of Fear explores the trauma theory in relation to U.S. discussions of slavery and abolition before and after the Civil War.

Additional text

Brimming with inspired historical insight, The Archive of Fear expands our thinking about both trauma and slavery in powerful ways. Zwarg takes up the writings of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois to show us how the violence that structured Atlantic enslavement had a temporality that exceeds the legal boundaries of slavery, spreading traumatic energies in insidious, hard-to-detect ways. This a timely and thoroughly engrossing book.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Zwarg, Christina (Professor of English Zwarg, Zwarg Christina
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2020
• EAN: 9780198866299
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886629-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Slavery and abolition of slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black