{"product_id":"raising-the-dead-9780822324751","title":"Raising the Dead","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers an exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. This title argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other \"minorities\" in society is, like death, \"almost unspeakable.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRaising the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a \u003ci\u003etour de force\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e“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\u003cbr\u003e“A work of theoretical power and brilliant interpretive prowess.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknoweldgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Raising the Dead 1\u003cbr\u003e 1 Death and the Nations Subjects 13\u003cbr\u003e 2 Bakulu Discourse: Bodies Made \"Flesh\" in Toni Morrison's Beloved 41\u003cbr\u003e 3 Telling the Story of Genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead 68\u003cbr\u003e 4 (Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts 103\u003cbr\u003e 5 \"From this Moment Forth, We Are Black Lesbians\": Querying Feminism and Killing the Self in Consolidated's Business of Punishment 124\u003cbr\u003e 6 Critical Conversations at the Boundary between Life and Death 149\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue 175\u003cbr\u003e Notes 183\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography 209\u003cbr\u003e Index 227","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456015106391,"sku":"9780822324751","price":104.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822324751.jpg?v=1755033446","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/raising-the-dead-9780822324751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}