{"product_id":"the-archive-of-fear-white-crisis-and-black-freedom-in-douglass-stowe-and-du-bois-9780198866299","title":"The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du Bois","description":"Focusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, \u003cem\u003eThe Archive of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and cultural-historical theories of trauma, discovering a virtual dialogue between three central U. S. writers and Sigmund Freud concerning the traumatic response of slavery's perpetrators. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA strain of trauma theory and practice comes alive in the temporal and spatial disruptions of New World slavery-and \u003cem\u003eThe Archive of Fear\u003c\/em\u003e shows how key elements of that theory still inform the infrastructure of race relations today. It argues that trauma theory before Freud first involves a return to an overlap between crisis, insurrection, and mesmerism found in the work of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois. Mesmer's \"crisis state\" has long been read as the precursor to hypnosis, the tool Freud famously rejected when he created psychoanalysis. But the story of what was lost to trauma theory when Freud adopted the \"talk cure\" can be told through cultural disruptions of New World slavery, especially after mesmerism arrived in Saint Domingue where its implication in the Haitian revolution in both reality and fantasy had an impact on the history of emancipation in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zwarg, Christina\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198866299\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Christina Zwarg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32962947448907,"sku":"9780198866299","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_7fd2a89d-a285-4aed-97f9-a1b9271856f8.jpg?v=1605742007","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-archive-of-fear-white-crisis-and-black-freedom-in-douglass-stowe-and-du-bois-9780198866299","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}