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Haunting capital : memory, text and the Black diasporic body
- Title
- Haunting capital : memory, text and the Black diasporic body / Hershini Bhana Young.
- Author
- Young, Hershini Bhana.
- Publication
- Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2006.
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- Description
- ix, 235 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas
- Subject
- Southern African fiction (English) > Women authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism
- American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Africa, Southern
- Women and literature > United States
- Wounds and injuries in literature
- Women, Black, in literature
- Human body in literature
- Imperialism in literature
- Sex role in literature
- Memory in literature
- Race in literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Memory, text, body -- Opening heads and reaching shores : reading ghostly desire in Bessie Head's A question of power and Deborah Jack's Shore -- Between a push and a fall : the politics of re-memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Hungry women : economies of injury in Tsitsi Dangarembga' Nervous conditions -- The wounding of displacement : looking for home in Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon -- Coda : the haunting distance between two places, South Africa and South Carolina.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-2184
- ISBN
- 1584655186 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 1584655194 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005019249
- 9781584655183
- 9781584655190
- OCLC
- 61027390
- Author
- Young, Hershini Bhana.
- Title
- Haunting capital : memory, text and the Black diasporic body / Hershini Bhana Young.
- Imprint
- Hanover, N.H. : Dartmouth College Press : Published by University Press of New England, c2006.
- Series
- Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 97815846551839781584655190
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-2184Sc E 08-1321