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Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature
- Title
- Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature / Anissa Janine Wardi.
- Author
- Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969-
- Publication
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 214 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: signifying gestures, or the mark of Cane in African American literature -- Graveyard dirt: the embodied South in A gathering of old men and Beloved -- Cotton fields and cane stalks: labor and death in Of love and dust and Song of Solomon -- "His house is a dead thing": home and exile in Linden hills -- "A crooked kind of mourning": migration and loss in Jazz, The men of Brewster Place, and In my father's house -- Conversations with the dead: echoes of "Kabnis" in Mama day -- Conclusion: "Our people's graves."
- Call Number
- Sc E 04-499
- ISBN
- 0813026881
- LCCN
- 2003061691
- OCLC
- 52962936
- Author
- Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969-
- Title
- Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature / Anissa Janine Wardi.
- Imprint
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2003.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 04-499