Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Marisa Parham is Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College and her articles have appeared in Callaloo and ELH. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Looking at texts including Jean Toomer's Cane! Toni Morrison's Beloved! James Baldwin's Another Country! and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann! inthis original study! Parham describes thephenomena of haunting! displacement! and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory-conscious and unconscious! individual and collective-often drive African American cultural production! but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere! from other times! spaces! and experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marisa Parham, Marisa (Amherst College Parham, Parham Marisa
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.01.2011
• EAN: 9780415888585
• ISBN: 978-0-415-88858-5
• Seiten: 162
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; USA, Ethnic Studies, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General