Death-Bound-Subject - Richard Wright''s Archaeology of Death

Informationen zum Autor Abdul R. JanMohamed is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa and a coeditor of The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse. Klappentext A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work. Zusammenfassung A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright's work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix 1. Introduction: the Culture of Social-Death 1 2. Uncle Tom's Children: Dialectics of Death 45 3. Native Son: Symbolic-Death 77 4. Black Boy: Negation of Death-Bound-Subjectivity 138 5. The Outsider: Patricidal Desires 175 6. Savage Holiday: Matricide and Infanticide 210 7. The Long Dream: Death and the Paternal Function 233 8. Renegotiating the Death Contract 266 Notes 301 Works Cited 317 Index 323

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Abdul R Janmohamed, Abdul R. Janmohamed
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 21.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822334880
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3488-0
• Pagine: 344
• Dimensioni: 146 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese