Raising the Dead Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
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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1. Verfasser: Holland, Sharon Patricia (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pease, Donald E. 1945- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press [2000]
Schriftenreihe:New Americanists
Schlagworte:
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American
African Americans in literature
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
Death in literature
Death > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century
Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century
Marginality, Social, in literature
Performing arts > United States > History > 20th century
Subjectivity in literature
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
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Zusammenfassung: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 "the space of death" gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide.Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other "minorities" in society is, like death, "almost unspeakable." She gives voice to-or raises-the dead through her examination of works such as the movie Menace II Society, Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits, and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory.Raising the Dead will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (248 pages) 2 b&w photographs
ISBN:9780822380382
DOI:10.1515/9780822380382

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