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Using the term "prophetic remembrance" to articulate the expression of a constituent faith in the performative capacity of language, Erica Still shows how black subjectivity is born of and interprets cultural trauma. She brings together African American neo-slave narratives and Black South African postapartheid narratives to reveal the processes by which black subjectivity accounts for its traumatic origins, names the therapeutic work of the present, and inscribes the possibility of the future.

The author draws on trauma studies, black theology, and literary criticism as she considers how writers such as Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, John Edgar Wideman, David Bradley, Sindiwe Magona, K. Sello Duiker, and Zakes Mda explore the possibilities for rehearsing a traumatic past without being overcome by it. Although both African American and South African literary studies have addressed questions of memory, narrative, and trauma, little comparative work has been done. Prophetic Remembrance offers this comparative focus in reading these literatures together to address the question of what it means to remember and to recover from racial oppression.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. Introduction: Toward a Theory of Prophetic Remembrance
  2. pp. 1-44
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  1. 1. Ruptured Wounds: The Body of Prophetic Remembrance
  2. pp. 45-80
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  1. 2. Fugitive Homes: The Space of Prophetic Remembrance
  2. pp. 81-124
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  1. 3. Artful Mourning: The Language of Prophetic Remembrance
  2. pp. 125-153
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  1. 4. Resurrection Scars: The Time of Prophetic Remembrance
  2. pp. 154-186
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  1. Conclusion: Prophetic Remembrance— Race, Religion, and the Literary
  2. pp. 187-208
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 209-216
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 217-228
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 229-242
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