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Author Holland, Sharon Patricia.

Title Raising the dead [electronic resource] : readings of death and (Black) subjectivity / Sharon Patricia Holland.

Imprint Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2000.

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Description xi, 235 p. : ill.
Series New Americanists
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
New Americanists.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.
Contents Death and the nation's subjects -- Bakulu discourse: bodies made "flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Telling the story of genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- (Pro)creating in imaginative spaces and other queer acts: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits and its revival of James Baldwin's absent Black gay man in Giovanni's room -- "From this moment forth, we are Black lesbians": querying feminism and killing the self in Consolidated's Business of punishment -- Critical conversations at the boundary between life and death.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Death -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Performing arts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Marginality, Social, in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780822380382
0822380382
082232475X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780822324751 (cloth : alk. paper)
0822324997 (paper : alk. paper)
9780822324997 (paper : alk. paper)

 
    
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