{"id":59101,"date":"2019-10-24T13:36:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59101"},"modified":"2019-10-24T13:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T13:37:42","slug":"refusing-historical-amnesia-emily-raboteau-danzy-senna-and-the-american-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59101","title":{"rendered":"Refusing Historical Amnesia: Emily Raboteau, Danzy Senna, and the American South"},"content":{"rendered":"

Refusing Historical Amnesia: Emily Raboteau, Danzy Senna, and the American South<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

English Language Notes<\/a>
\nVolume 57, Issue 2 (2019-10-01)<\/a>
\npages 99-113
\nDOI: 10.1215\/00138282-7716184<\/a><\/p>\n

Nicole Stamant<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of English
\nAgnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Issue<\/a><\/p>\n

Performing what Michele Elam<\/a> calls \u201ca refusal of historical amnesia,\u201d Danzy Senna<\/a> and Emily Raboteau<\/a> expose how social justice and hospitality are constructed in and around what Pierre Nora<\/a> calls lieux de m\u00e9moire<\/em><\/a>. Engaging particular sites of memory in the American South<\/a>\u2014places with national and personal significance\u2014Raboteau and Senna negotiate and interrogate the interstitial spaces of racial ambiguity, liminality, and invisibility as they uncover different modes of commemoration and fend off historical forgetting. Writing about their experiences as biracial African Americans, Raboteau and Senna show readers how memorialization of black southern experience connects with communal or inherited familial memories. Their considerations of memory, and the attendant concerns about subjectivity and forgetting, demonstrate the central place of testimony to mnemonic restitution. In so doing, they also expose new ways to engage trauma: through the affect of what Lauren Berlant<\/a> describes as \u201ccrisis ordinariness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Writing about their experiences as biracial African Americans, Raboteau and Senna show readers how memorialization of black southern experience connects with communal or inherited familial memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20],"tags":[1340,2358,30413,30414],"class_list":["post-59101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-emily-raboteau","tag-english-language-notes","tag-nicole-stamant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59103,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59101\/revisions\/59103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}