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Raising the Dead – Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity: New Americanists

Autor Sharon Patricia Holland
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mar 2000
Through a series of literary and cultural readings, argues that African-Americans have a special relation to death arising from their death-like social marginality.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822324751
ISBN-10: 082232475X
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 150 x 250 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Americanists


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"A thorough, challenging, and compelling investigation of the themes of subjectivity, death, and their interrelation in twentieth-century American literature and culture."--Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside

Cuprins

Acknoweldgments ix
Introduction: Raising the Dead 1
1 Death and the Nations Subjects 13
2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made "Flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 41
3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 68
4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 103
5 "From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 124
6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149
Epilogue 175
Notes 183
Selected Bibliography 209
Index 227