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Raising the Dead
Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
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2000
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Sharon Patricia Holland is Assistant Professor of English at Stanford University.
Reviews
“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
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Raising the Dead
1 - PART ONE. Imaginative Places, White Spaces: If Only the Dead Could Speak
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1. Death and the Nation’s Subjects
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2. Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made ‘‘Flesh’’ in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
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3. Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead
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PART TWO. Dead Bodies, Queer Subjects
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4. (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts: Randall Kenan’s AVisitation of Spirits and Its Revival of James Baldwin’s Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni’s Room
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5. ‘‘From This Moment Forth,We Are Black Lesbians’’: Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated’s Business of Punishment
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6. Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death
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EPILOGUE ‘‘I’m in the Zone’’: Bill T. Jones, Tupac Shakur, and the (Queer) Art of Death
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Notes
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Selected Bibliography
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Index
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March 29, 2000
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9780822380382
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248
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2 b&w photographs
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