Raising the Dead : Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity /

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Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through...

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Autor principal: Holland, Sharon Patricia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Andrae, A.
Roman.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs noirs americains > Histoire et critique.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis > 20e siecle.
Mort > Dans la litterature.
Tod
Tod > Motiv
Subjektivität
Schwarze
Literatur
Gesellschaft
Subjectivity in literature.
Performing arts.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
Homosexuality and literature.
Feminism and literature.
Death > Social aspects.
Death in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
American fiction.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Subjectivite dans la litterature.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Arts du spectacle > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Homosexualite et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mort > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mort dans la litterature.
Roman americain > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Performing arts > United States > History > 20th century.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Schwarze.
USA.
USA
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 in 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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