2016 Annual Conference

This study explores the psychological dimension of trauma that is transmissible and demonstrates the ways in which the initial trauma of enslavement reinvents itself.

students, professionals, and scholars of African American literature and those interested in intergenerational transmissions of familial or ethnic history.

This study contributes to an ongoing dialogue about the unconscious transmissions of the original trauma of African American slavery, opening up a multitude of possibilities for further research in representations of transgenerational trauma in other contemporary texts of African American literature.