The Keloids We Heal
Trauma, Spirituality, and Black Modernity in Literature
- English
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About this book
Women of colors and a literature written in corporeal and spiritual scars
The corporeal and spiritual healing in literature by women of colors can be seen to redefine modern thought and printed text. Sarah Soanirina Ohmer traces the impact of colonization and enslavement on Black women and Black women's contributions to colonial, nineteenth, and twentieth century literature in the US, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Drawing on intersectional analysis, Ohmer focuses on portrayals of trauma and spirituality in works by Toni Morrison, Conceição Evaristo, Maryse Condé, Gloria Anzaldúa, the Quilombhoje poets, and María de los Reyes Castillo. Ohmer compares literature from different countries along four thematic pathways: ghosts, mirrors, naming, and motherhood. Her analysis unlocks the literature's power to heal through gut-wrenching descriptions of wounds and thrilling passages of hope and liberation. Throughout, Ohmer weaves in her life story as a Black woman as she reflects on how colonialism, racism, sexism, and capitalism have impacted her work, traumas, and faith journey.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Keloids of Modernity
- 1 Founders of Spiritual Transnational Homes: Black Women Trailblazers of Literature in the Americas
- 2 Intersectional Approaches to the Study of Modernity and Trauma in the Americas
- 3 Listening to Spirit and Healing Inherited Trauma
- 4 Picking Up the Pieces: Anti-Naming and Postslavery Shock
- 5 “And Now We See”: Breaking Down Mirrors of Internal Colonization
- 6 Recovering from (m)Otherhood: Reframing Displaced Maternal Identities
- Conclusion: Healing Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back Cover