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: "This collection is a timely, fascinating, often brilliant scholarly intervention in matters central both to the range of scholars and artists whose work it discusses and to the field of Black Studies."--Michael Awkward "author of Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory & Culture after King"