Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-99094-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Toni Morrison’s Beloved, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory—conscious and unconscious, individual and collective—often drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parham, Marisa (Amherst College, USA)

Parham, Marisa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Permissions

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Haunting and Displacement

Chapter One: Like Water: Hughes, Cullen, Johnson

Chapter Two: "Do You Love Me?": Another Country



Chapter Three: Behind Carma and Rosie



Chapter Four: Folded Sorrows in Kaufman and Toomer



Chapter Five: Saying "Yes" in Kindred



Chapter Six: Winding Sheets: Petry and Wright

Coda: Future Expectations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marisa Parham is Assistant Professor of English at Amherst College and her articles have appeared in Callaloo and ELH.