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Raising the dead : readings of death and (Black) subjectivity /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, NC :
Duke University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | New Americanists.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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 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.