In Haunting Capital, Hershini Young sets out to re-theorize the African diaspora "so that the concept becomes unintelligible without an understanding of gender as a constitutive element." Young uses the historically injured bodies of black women, as represented in novels by black women, to talk about colonialism, gender, race, memory and haunting. Haunting Capital departs from traditional trauma studies, which stress individual wounding and psychotherapeutic models.…
Author: Hershini Bhana Young · Original publisher: Dartmouth College Press / University Press of New England (Hanover, New Hampshire, 2005) (later/standard edition)
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