Raising the dead : readings of death and (Black) subjectivity /

Raising the dead : readings of death and (Black) subjectivity / Sharon Patricia Holland.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holland, Sharon Patricia.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Series:New Americanists
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Performing arts > United States > History > 20th century.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Death and the nation's subjects
  • Bakulu discourse: bodies made "flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • Telling the story of genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead
  • (Pro)creating imaginative spaces and other queer acts: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits and its revival of James Baldwin's absent Black gay man in Giovanni's room
  • "From this moment forth, we are Black lesbians": querying feminism and killing the self in Consolidated's Business of punishment
  • Critical conversations at the boundary between life and death.

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