Cultural melancholy : readings of race, impossible mourning, and African American ritual /

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"A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and films, Singleton demonstrates how rit...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Singleton, Jermaine, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Temas:
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Grief in literature.
Mourning customs > United States.
African Americans > Race identity > History.
Chagrin dans la littérature.
Deuil > Coutumes > États-Unis.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
HISTORY > Social History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
African Americans > Race identity
American literature > African American authors
Grief in literature
Mourning customs
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Melancholy That Is Not Her Own: The Evolution of the Blueswoman and the Consolidation of; 2 Reconstituted Melancholy: Impossible Mourning and the Prevalence of Ritual and Race in August; 3 The Melancholy of Faith: Reading the Gendered and Sexual Politics of Testifying in James Baldwin's; 4 Queering Celie's Same-Sex Desire: Impossible Mourning, Trauma, and Heterosexual Failure in Alice; 5 A Clearing beyond the Melancholic Haze: Staging Racial Grieving in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus and.
  • Coda: On Conformity to the Category of Time (Race)Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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