Raising the Dead - Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

"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

List of contents

Acknoweldgments ix

Introduction: Raising the Dead 1

1 Death and the Nations Subjects 13

2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made "Flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 41

3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 68

4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 103

5 "From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 124

6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149

Epilogue 175

Notes 183

Selected Bibliography 209

Index 227

About the author

Sharon Patricia Holland is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Patricia Holland
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2000
• EAN: 9780822324997
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2499-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 413 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies