001477845 000__ 05702nam\a22007815i\4500 001477845 001__ 1477845 001477845 003__ DE-B1597 001477845 005__ 20231026034832.0 001477845 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477845 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477845 008__ 230103t20222010nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477845 020__ $$a9780823292226 001477845 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823292226$$2doi 001477845 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565918 001477845 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306538726 001477845 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477845 0410_ $$aeng 001477845 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477845 072_7 $$aLIT004020$$2bisacsh 001477845 1001_ $$aStringer, Dorothy, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477845 24510 $$aNot Even Past :$$bRace, Historical Trauma, and Subjectivity in Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten /$$cDorothy Stringer. 001477845 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477845 264_4 $$c©2010 001477845 300__ $$a1 online resource (272 p.) :$$b6 Illustrations, black and white 001477845 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477845 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477845 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477845 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477845 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tList of Figures -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIntroduction -- $$t1 "Little Black Man": Repetition, the Lesbian Phallus, and the Southern Rape Complex in Sanctuary -- $$t2 "Which Tooth Hit You First?": Nation, Home, Women, and Violence in Requiem for a Nun -- $$t3 "Anyone with Half an Eye": Blackness and the Disaster of Narcissism in Quicksand -- $$t4 "A Having Way": Fetishism and the Black Bourgeoisie in Passing -- $$t5 "To Glorify the Negro": Photographic Shock and Blackness in Carl Van Vechten's Portraiture -- $$tConclusion -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex 001477845 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477845 520__ $$aNot Even Past highlights references to nineteenth-century U.S. slavery and anti-Black racism in literary and photographic projects begun during the late 1920s and early 1930s, including novels by William Faulkner and Nella Larsen, and portraits by Carl Van Vechten. These texts share a representational crisis, in which distinctions between present, "idian racism and a massive, fully racialized historical trauma disappear. All identify persistent historical traumatization with intense subjective states (including madness, religious ecstasy, narcissism, and fetishistic enjoyment), and each explores the conservative, even coercive social character of such links between psyche and history. When the past of enslavement is "not even past," narration freezes, black and white women lose their capacity to question or resist social and domestic violence, and racial politics fail. Anticipating contemporary trauma studies by decades, these disparate modernists' works constitute not an expounded or avowed but an interstitial trauma theory, which finds its shape in the spaces left by conventional public discourse. Their works parallel important essays by psychoanalytic thinkers of the same era, including Joan Riviere, Sigmund Freud, Melanie Klein, and Walter Benjamin, and their joint explication of relationships among psyche, history, and race offers important resources for psychoanalytic approaches to racial difference today. Despite their analytic acuity, however, Faulkner, Larsen, and Van Vechten also themselves carry the traumatic past forward into the future. Indeed, the two novelists' tragic depictions of a triumphant color line and the photographer's insistence on an idiom of black primitivism lent support to white supremacy in the twentieth century. Yet even in their very failure, three U.S. modernists tell us that it is not enough simply to exercise critical acuity on the marks of past violence. Reading, however masterly, cannot interrupt a history in the midst of repeating itself; it can only itself reiterate the disaster. 001477845 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477845 546__ $$aIn English. 001477845 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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