Description: What would it mean to "get over slavery"? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? To explore these questions, The Psychic Hold of Slavery assembles a diverse collection of literary and film critics, philosophers, and cultural theorists. With a painful awareness that our understanding of the past informs our understanding of the present--and vice versa--the contributors place slavery's historical legacies in conversation with twenty-first-century manifestations of antiblack violence, dehumanization, and social death.
Review Quotes: "[The Psychic Hold of Slavery] is well written and well organized. The proficiency and writing style of the contributors serves to reassure readers that they are among knowledgeable experts in the field... This is a must read book for any African American Studies course."-- "Horizons in Humanities and Social Sciences"