{"product_id":"wounds-of-returning-race-memory-and-property-on-the-postslavery-plantation-9780807858011","title":"Wounds of Returning: Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation","description":"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 annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of southern plantations after slavery. In \u003ci\u003eWounds of Returning\u003c\/i\u003e, Adams shows that the slave past returns to inhabit plantation landscapes that have been radically transformed by tourism, consumer culture, and modern modes of punishment--even those landscapes from which slavery has supposedly been banished completely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdams explores how the commodification of black bodies during slavery did not disappear with abolition--rather, the same principle was transformed into modern consumer capitalism. As Adams demonstrates, however, 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 modern culture, suggesting that they remain haunted by the force of the unnatural equation of people as property. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jessica Adams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.66h x 5.72w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807858011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdams, Jessica:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jessica Adams is lecturer in English at the University of California, Berkeley. She is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eJust Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the Southern United States\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161674854515,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_c0cd90a6-1557-43c2-89f7-7cf18a9a8566.jpg?v=1654955952","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/wounds-of-returning-race-memory-and-property-on-the-postslavery-plantation-9780807858011","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}