Looking at texts by authors including Toomer, Morrison, Baldwin, and Kaufmann, in this study Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory often drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences.
Looking at texts by authors including Toomer, Morrison, Baldwin, and Kaufmann, in this study Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory often drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences.
Marisa Parham is Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College and her articles have appeared in Callaloo and ELH.
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List of Figures Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Haunting and Displacement Chapter One: Like Water: Hughes, Cullen, Johnson Chapter Two: "Do You Love Me?": Another Country Chapter Three: Behind Carma and Rosie Chapter Four: Folded Sorrows in Kaufman and Toomer Chapter Five: Saying "Yes" in Kindred Chapter Six: Winding Sheets: Petry and Wright Coda: Future Expectations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
List of Figures Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Haunting and Displacement Chapter One: Like Water: Hughes, Cullen, Johnson Chapter Two: "Do You Love Me?": Another Country Chapter Three: Behind Carma and Rosie Chapter Four: Folded Sorrows in Kaufman and Toomer Chapter Five: Saying "Yes" in Kindred Chapter Six: Winding Sheets: Petry and Wright Coda: Future Expectations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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