Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation

Cover
UNC Press Books, 2007 - 226 Seiten
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. From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans
 

Inhalt

Introduction
1
1 Sex and Segregation
21
2 Plantations without Slaves
54
3 Roadside Attractions
86
4 Southern Frontiers
108
5 Stars and Stripes
135
Epilogue
159
Notes
161
Bibliography
195
Index
217
Urheberrecht

Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

Autoren-Profil (2007)

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.

Bibliografische Informationen