Cultural Melancholy : Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual /

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"More than 130 years have passed since the ratification of the 13th Amendment and the U.S. Constitution declared slavery illegal, yet the nation still suffers from legacies of slavery. In this cultural and literary studies project, Singleton charts new territory in the relationship between crit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Singleton, Jermaine, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Languages & Literatures.
English.
American Literature.
Mourning customs.
Grief in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African Americans > Race identity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique > Histoire.
Deuil > Coutumes > États-Unis.
Chagrin dans la litterature.
African Americans > Race identity > History.
Mourning customs > United States.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
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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