Sharon Patricia Holland

Raising the Dead

Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

"A thorough, challenging, and compelling investigation of the themes of subjectivity, death, and their interrelation in twentieth-century American literature and culture."--Emory Elliott, University of California, Riverside

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 159mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 585g
• ISBN-13: 9780822324751
• ISBN-10: 082232475X
• Artikelnr.: 20977115

Autorenporträt

Sharon Patricia Holland is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknoweldgments ix
Introduction: Raising the Dead 1
1 Death and the Nations Subjects 13
2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made "Flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 41
3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the
Dead 68
4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 103
5 "From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and
Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 124
6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149
Epilogue 175
Notes 183
Selected Bibliography 209
Index 227