The Phantasic Trauma Narrative

This literary movement manifest in what I call the phantasmic trauma narrative, which uses culturally specific modes of the fantastic or the supernatural to engage the traumatic past and give voice to those marginalized by white historiographic accounts. The phantasmic trauma narrative provides a space within which African American writes can connect the event of slavery to the broader cultural fabric of African American history.” (Setka pg. 93)
Butler provides the reader with a connection to how the affects from slavery still arise in present day society. As Professor Guy Mark Foster states, “Kindred is not so much about slavery as it is about how black Americans learn to renegotiate the history of slavery within their present-day circumstances.”(Foster