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

Sharon Patricia Holland

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Raising the Dead

Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity

Sharon Patricia Holland
Edited by: Donald E. Pease

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2000

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

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“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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Literary Studies Literature of other Nations and Languages Other Nations and Languages

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Raising the Dead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
PART ONE. Imaginative Places, White Spaces: If Only the Dead Could Speak
1. Death and the Nation’s Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
2. Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made ‘‘Flesh’’ in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
3. Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
PART TWO. Dead Bodies, Queer Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	101
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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
5. ‘‘From This Moment Forth,We Are Black Lesbians’’: Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated’s Business of Punishment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
6. Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
EPILOGUE ‘‘I’m in the Zone’’: Bill T. Jones, Tupac Shakur, and the (Queer) Art of Death Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
Selected Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227

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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

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822380382

eBook ISBN: 9780822380382

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