The death-bound-subject
Subtitle: Richard Wright's archaeology of death
By: Abdul R. JanMohamed.
Series: Post-contemporary interventions
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham [N.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation; Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans in literature; Violence in literature; Slavery in literature; Death in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-322) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the culture of social-death; title: Uncle Tom's children : dialectics of death; title: Native son : symbolic-death; title: Black boy : negation of death-bound-subjectivity; title: The outsider : patricidal desires; title: Savage holiday : matricide and infanticide; title: The long dream : death and the paternal function; title: Renegotiating the death contract.