Raising the Dead

Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

AvSharon Patricia Holland

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Del i serien New Americanists

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-03-29
Mått:156 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Americanists
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822324997

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

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

Recensioner i media

“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 “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 “A work of theoretical power and brilliant interpretive prowess.”-Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University

Innehållsförteckning

Acknoweldgments ixIntroduction: Raising the Dead 11 Death and the Nations Subjects 132 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made "Flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 413 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 684 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 1035 "From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians": Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 1246 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149Epilogue 175Notes 183Selected Bibliography 209Index 227