Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature, Anissa Janine Wardi
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Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature, Anissa Janine Wardi
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-199) and index
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non fiction
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Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature
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Anissa Janine Wardi
Table of 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."
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