Corporeal Legacies in the US South Memory and Embodiment in Contempo
This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and film
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Corporeal Legacies in the US South
Christopher Lloyd
Corporeal Legacies in the US South Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture
Christopher Lloyd School of Humanities University of Hertfordshire Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-96204-7 ISBN 978-3-319-96205-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96205-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018952605 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: Christopher Lloyd Cover design by Ran Shauli This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
To Chris, with much love
Acknowledgments
My interests in memory and race in the US South have deep roots, and I explored some of these in my first book with Palgrave Macmillan. Corporeal Legacies in the US South is an extension of that thinking into other bodies, spaces, and temporalities. I frequently dwell on a phrase that I saw some years ago at a London gallery, stitched into a tapestry by Tracey Emin: “The past is a heavy place.” This book is an attempt to articulate some of that weight as it is manifest in culture about the US South. The project began as a proposal for a postdoctoral fellowship which would have been held at the University of East Anglia (sadly, it did not happen). My thanks, though, first go to Tom Smith and Mark Jancovich for supporting the application so whole-heartedly, and for providing useful feedback; and I thank Rick Crownshaw, Anna Hartnell, and Michael Bibler, too, for providing references and encouragement at that early stage. As it became a book, I had much support from Palgrave Macmillan in New York. I thank Shaun Vigil and Glenn Ramirez for their interest in the work, and for so sm
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