Cultural Melancholy
Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual
A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and films, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform grief discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts. Singleton develops the concept of cultural melancholy as a crit…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-252-09771-3
- EAN: 9780252097713
- Produktnummer: 20437454
- Verlag: University of Illinois Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'664 KB
Über den Autor
Jermaine Singleton is an associate professor of English at Hamline University.
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