num_pages: 248
description: Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of deaths relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland travelling through the space of death gives us as cultural readers a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies discourses and communities collide. Holland argues that the presence of blacks Native Americans women queers and other minorities in society is like death almost unspeakable. She gives voice toor raisesthe dead through her examination of works such as the movie Menace II Society Toni Morrisons novel Beloved Leslie Marmon Silkos Almanac of the Dead Randall Kenans A Visitation of Spirits and the work of the all-white male feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture queer and feminist theory.Raising the Dead will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture African-American literature literary theory gender studies queer theory and cultural studies.
language: English
title: Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
publisher: Duke University Press Books