Traumatic Possessions : The Body and Memory in African American Women's Writing and Performance.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Title of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: "The Quick Gasp of Sympathy": Trauma and Interracial Witnessing in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa R ose -- Chapter 2: Betrayal Trauma and the Test of Complicity in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus -- Chapter 3: Between Women: Trauma, Witnessing, and the Legacy of Interracial Rape in Robbie McCauley's Sally's Rape -- Chapter 4: Uncanny Spaces: Trauma, Cultural Memory, and Female Body in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Chapter 5: "I Have Never Seen a Movie Like That": Traumatic Memory and the "Acceleration of History" in Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.