Raising the Dead : Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity.

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.

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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