Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (New Americanists) - Hardcover

Holland, Sharon Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 082232475X ISBN 13: 9780822324751

Verlag: Duke University Press, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Holland Sharon Patricia

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"A work of theoretical power and brilliant interpretive prowess."-Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University "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 "Raising the Dead is a tour de force filled with provocative, original, and imaginative observations and insights. Sharon Holland draws on a dazzling range of influences and interprets an impressive array of diverse cultural forms as she asks and answers crucial questions about ancestry, origins, and heritage in African American and Native American life and culture."-George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego

Reseña del editor

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.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 082232475X
• ISBN 13: 9780822324751
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248