Raising the dead [electronic resource] readings of death and (Black) subjectivity / Sharon Patricia Holland.
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TextSeries: e-Duke books scholarly collection | New AmericanistsPublication details: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.Description: xi, 235 p. : illSubject(s): - American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Death in literature
- Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Marginality, Social, in literature
- African Americans in literature
- Subjectivity in literature
- PS374.D34 H65 2000
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| Ebook | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Online | eBook (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.
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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