Karla Fc Holloway

Passed on

African American Mourning Stories, a Memorial

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Beginning with the tragic loss of her son, Karla Holloway poignantly examines how race not only affects the meaning of black lives, but their deaths as well."--Paula Giddings, author of "When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 345g
• ISBN-13: 9780822332459
• ISBN-10: 0822332450
• Artikelnr.: 21100966

Autorenporträt

Karla FC Holloway is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Duke University. She is the author of Moorings and Metaphors: Culture and Gender in Black Women’s Literature and Codes of Conduct: Race, Ethics, and the Color of Our Character. Karla Holloway is also Associate Faculty Scholar in the Duke Institute for Care at the End of Life.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
1. “Who’s Got the Body?”: The Business of Burial
2. Mortifications: How We Die
> 3. The Ends of Days
> 4. Funeralized: The Remains of the Day
5. The Promise of Hope in a Season of Despair: A Funeral Sermon by Maurice
O. Wallace
Epilogue / In Memoriam
Bibliography
Index