Traumatic Possessions: The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance

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Chun, Wendy Hui, 104 “coatlicue” space/state, 78–80, 87 “contestive relation,” 48, 108 courtrooms, reception of trauma survivor’s testimony within, 8, 13, 36, 37–41, 49, 60, 90–98, 102 Crimp, Douglas, 47 Culbertson, Roberta, 19 Cuvier, Dr., 33, 42–43, 47, 90 Davis, Angela, 57 de Certeau, Michel, 11, 66 Demleitner, Nora V., 35–36, 40 “demonic Woman,” 73–74, 77 Denny, Reginald, 107 denial, in relation to survivor testimony, 10, 25, 42, 46–49, 53–55, 106 Diamond, Elin, 65 Dolan, Jill, 52 Douglass, Ana, 2 Dubey, Madhu, 87 Duke, Charles, expert witness at Rodney King beating trial, 91– 92 Elam, Harry, Jr., 38 “empathic unsettlement,” 8, 40 Erickson, Kai, 100 evidence, of traumatic experience, 15, 34, 41, 82, 90; preserving, 77, 83; racism’s influence on, 16; relationship to the Abraham, Nicholas, 11, 71, 109 “acceleration of history,” 89–90, 95, 100, 106–7 Ainslie, Ricardo, 100 Altrick, Richard, 39 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 78–80 auction block, the, 12, 31, 56, 62, 64, 85 Baartman, Sara, a.k.a. the Hottentot Venus, 35–43 Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi, 7, 56, 66 Baker, Houston, 7–9, 93–94 Bartky, Sandra, 75 Bhabha, Homi, 100 Black Skin, White Masks, 6, 50, 94 blues, the, 12, 70, 83–85 body, the, and traumatic memory, 1, 5, 9, 11, 23, 63–65, 71, 74, 95; as evidence of traumatic experience, 96; black female and cultural inscription, 5–7, 10–13, 27, 33, 45, 50, 51, 56–57, 90 Brabeck, Kalina, 100 Bronfen, Elisabeth, 73, 77 Brooks Bouson, J., 4 Brown, Laura, 72 Brownmiller, Susan, 57 Butler, Judith, 10 Caruth, Cathy, 3, 31, 66, 70, 96 Christensen, Kimberly, 59 Index 132 / index Jones, Gayl, 11–13, 33, 45, 63, 68 Keenan, Thomas, 47–48 King, Deborah Walker, 9 King, Rodney, 7–9, 13, 89, 91–96, 102–103, 106 Kirmayer, Laurence, 4, 18, 80 Kondo, Dorinne, 99, 104–105 “la facultad,” 79 LaCapra, Dominick, 3, 8, 40 “landscapes of memory,” 5, 10, 71, 79, 87 Laub, Dori, 1, 17, 47, 53, 74, 83, 96; defining witnessing, 53, 55, 97; on the addressable other, 2, 10, 13, 16; on the drive to create testimony, 68 Lerner, Gerda, 67 Les curieux en extase ou les cordons de souliers, 37 “lieux de memoire,” 89, 107 Lifton, Robert Jay, 44, 80 Liu, Lydia, 108 “Look beneath the Surface”, 34 Louis, Yvette, 10 Lowe, Lisa, 106 Malpede, Karen, 52–53, 97 Mammy figure, the, 25, 26 Marneweck, Aja, 38 Martin, Carol, 86, 99 Martinez, Ruben, 98 Matsuda, Mari, 107 McCauley, Robbie, 11–12, 33, 41, 45–46, 69; Indian Wars, 47; My Father and the Wars, 47 McFarlane, Alexander, 69 McKay, Nellie, 57 media, compared to traumatic response, 89; recording of historical crisis, 90 memory, implicit/bodily, 1, 9, 11, 19–22, 57, 63, 65, 74, 79, 82, 95; compared to photography, 89, 90; cultural, 12, 48, 65, 108; declarative, 9, 11; effect of trauma on, 2, 14–15, 19, 32, 47, 48, 79, 89, 93, 99, 102; televisual, 90, 96 Mercer, Kobena, 15 Miller, Greg, 37 Mitchell, Juliet, 100, 101 Morrison, Toni, 18, 26, 63 Nadar, Kathleen Olympia, 70 visual, 7–10, 23, 36–37, 94, 102; violated body as, 16, 21, 98 Eyerman, Ron, 4 Fanon, Frantz, 6, 50–51, 57, 94–95 Fausto-Sterling, Anne, 44 Felman, Shoshana, 53, 82, 95–98 feminist performance art, 46–47 Forte, Jeanie, 64 Foucault, Michel, 51 Frankenberg, Ruth, 17, 60 Freud,Sigmund, 78; and Seduction Theory, 3–4; and the uncanny, 73 Freyd, Jennifer, 42–43 Friedman, Susan Stanford, 17, 90 Gates, Daryl, 92 “genealogies of performance,” 50 Gilbert, Sandra, 68 Gilman, Sander, 98 Goldberg, Elizabeth Swanson, 72 Griffin, Farah, 29, 32 Gubar, Susan, 68 Hammonds, Evelynn, 22, 49 Harris, Hilary, 49, 53 Harris, Janice, 83 Henderson, Mae, 15 Herman, Judith, on recovery, 87, 101; on the cultural aspects of trauma, 5; on traumatic memory, 1; on traumatic response, 22; on victim-perpetrator dynamics, 42, 45 Hirsch, Marianne, 87, 93 “historico-racial schema,” 6, 10, 51, 57, 94, 95 history as narrative, 90; as an official record, 12,15, 101, 108; relationship to the body, 55–56 Holiday, Billie, 60 Holocaust, role in trauma studies, 2–3; Auschwitz uprising, 1; comparisons with African American experience, 3 hooks, bell, 31, 58 Hutchins, Jeannie, 46, 49, 52–54, 56, 58–63 Ikemoto, Lisa C., 105 interracial dynamics between women, 23 interracial rape and feminism, 57 interracial relations, 49, 55, 66, 104–105 intersubjectivity, 3–4 [18.218.38...