Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: “Do You Want to Be Well?” 1
5. 1. 12 Years a What? Slavery, Representation, and Black Cultural Politics in 12 Years a Slave 17
6. 2. The Fruit of Abolition: Discontinuity and Difference in Terrance Hayes’s “The Avocado” 39
7. 3. Black Time: Slavery, Metaphysics, and the Logic of Wellness 55
8. 4. The Inside-Turned-Out Architecture of the Post-Neo-Slave Narrative 69
9. 5. Memwa se paswa: Sifting the Slave Past in Haiti 86
10. 6. Staging Social Death: Alienation and Embodiment in Aishah Rahman’s Unfi nished Women 107
11. 7. Dancing with Death: Spike Lee’s Bamboozled 125
12. 8. Laughing to Keep from Crying: Dave Chappelle’s Self-Exploration with “The Nigger Pixie” 150
13. 9. The Cartoonal Slave 168
14. 10. Trauma and the Historical Turn in Black Literary Discourse 195
15. Conclusion: Black Lives Matter, Except When They Don’t: Why Slavery’s Psychic Hold Matters 212
16. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 221
17. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 233
18. INDEX 237