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BEYOND SILENCE AND REALISM: TRAUMA AND THE FUNCTION OF GHOSTS IN ABSALOM, ABSALOM! AND BELOVED
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The Faulkner Journal
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April 1, 2008
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If we can agree that human slavery, as it was practiced in the United States and the Caribbean, paradoxically shares with the Holocaust a unique status, a quality of being particularly atrocious beyond the realm of realistic or rational representation, we might be tempted to speak nothing but respectful silence in the face of these historical events.1 And there are, in certain literary novels and stories that allude to these atrocities, gestures or attempts to "speak" such silences. The ending of Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno" is an example. In the story, Benito Cereno, a Spanish captain of a slave ship, survives a revolt on board led by Babo, one of the slaves. Captain Delano, an ...
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