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Waking up the Ghosts: Trauma Resurgence as a Possibility in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
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What is at stake when the trope of the specter, a commonplace in the genre of the Southern Gothic, is revisited in contemporary fiction? In this paper, I argue that Richie’s apparition surpasses the supernatural, representing much more than individual trauma. His spectral resurgence fights against collective racial injustice, and refuses the “disposability” of the black body, echoing Beloved’s specter, in Morrison’s eponymous novel (1987). Related to the mendacity of the spectral figure, Richie’s mischievous apparition seeks to break the fragile balance in Jojo’s family, an act leading to his ostracism. Based on Avery Gordon’s idea of the specter as a “social figure”, Richie’s ghost will be examined as a case of agency or “counter‑resistance” for the next generation, represented by the children in the novel.
Title: Waking up the Ghosts: Trauma Resurgence as a Possibility in Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
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What is at stake when the trope of the specter, a commonplace in the genre of the Southern Gothic, is revisited in contemporary fiction? In this paper, I argue that Richie’s apparition surpasses the supernatural, representing much more than individual trauma.
His spectral resurgence fights against collective racial injustice, and refuses the “disposability” of the black body, echoing Beloved’s specter, in Morrison’s eponymous novel (1987).
Related to the mendacity of the spectral figure, Richie’s mischievous apparition seeks to break the fragile balance in Jojo’s family, an act leading to his ostracism.
Based on Avery Gordon’s idea of the specter as a “social figure”, Richie’s ghost will be examined as a case of agency or “counter‑resistance” for the next generation, represented by the children in the novel.
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