Philadelphia freedoms : black American trauma, memory, and culture after King /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Awkward, Michael
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.
Subjects:	American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism. African Americans > Intellectual life. Collective memory in literature. Psychic trauma in literature. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Keeping the past in lively memory after King: the traumatic implications of black American oppression
'Philadelphia did not burn': quelling riots, deferring hoop dreams in the age of the militant black athlete
Haunted longings: nostalgic black musical formulations of masculinity and the patriarchal family
"A 'genuinely Afro-American narrative': Sarah Phillips and the politics of black textual authenticity
Screening the Beloved novel: on Oprah Winfrey and the protocols of adaptation
Conclusion: No longer at home?.