Transgenerational Ghosting in the Psyches and Somas of African Americans and their Literatures
I argue that William Wells Brown’s narrative, Clotel, is informed by the white racism inherent in Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia and reveals evidence of the trauma it has fostered transgenerationally. By examining Toni Morrison’s Beloved, I assert that the trauma of slavery is tra...
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ScholarWorks @ Georgia State University
2008
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| Online Access: | http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/39 http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1038&context=english_theses |