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

by Sharon Patricia Holland and Audrey Ricker

Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through "the space of death" gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822324997
• ISBN13: 9780822324997
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"