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Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation (New Directions in Southern Studies)

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From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather’s fiction, and the yearly prison rodeo held on the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery. In Wounds of Returning, Adams shows that the slave past returns to inhabit plantation landscapes which have been radically transformed by tourism, consumer culture, and brand new modes of punishment–even those landscapes from which slavery has supposedly been banished completely.

Adams explores how the commodification of black bodies all the way through slavery didn’t disappear with abolition–quite, the similar principle was once transformed into brand new consumer capitalism. As Adams demonstrates, alternatively, counternarratives and unexpected cultural hybrids erupt out of attempts to re-create the plantation as an uncomplicated scene of racial relationships or a signifier of national unity. Peeling back the layers of plantation landscapes, Adams reveals connections between seemingly disparate features of brand new culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property.

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