TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holland,Sharon Patricia
AU  - Pease,Donald E.
TI  - Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
T2  - New Americanists Series
SN  - 9780822380382
AV  - PS374 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - American fiction-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Death-Social aspects-United States-History-20th century
KW  - American literature-African American authors-History and criticism
KW  - Homosexuality and literature-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Feminism and literature-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Performing arts-United States-History-20th century
KW  - Marginality, Social, in literature
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Subjectivity in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Raising the Dead -- PART ONE Imaginative Places, White Spaces:If Only the Dead Could Speak -- 1 Death and the Nation's Subjects -- 2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made ''Flesh'' in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- 3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead -- PART TWO Dead Bodies, Queer Subjects -- 4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts:Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits and Its Revivalof James Baldwin's Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni's Room -- 5 ''From This Moment Forth,We Are Black Lesbians'':Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment -- 6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death -- EPILOGUE ''I'm in the Zone'': Bill T. Jones, Tupac Shakur, and the (Queer) Art of Death -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Through a series of literary and cultural readings, argues that African-Americans have a special relation to death arising from their death-like social marginality
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