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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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Description
xiv, 214 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
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
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