Corporeal Legacies in the US South Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture /

• Main Author: Lloyd, Christopher (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Study and teaching.; Motion pictures-United States.; America-Literatures.; African Americans.; Popular Culture.; American Culture.; American Cinema and TV.; North American Literature.; African American Culture.; Popular Culture .

This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film to detail the workings of cultural memory in...