Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture)

Synopsis

Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men, women, and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see, hear, and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover, this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries, as well as lines of race, gender, class, and nation.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

282 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000737165

Related ISBNs:

9780367276386, 9780367321581, 9780367853549

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

09/18/23

Copyrighted By:

Taylor & Francis

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Tiffany Austin

Edited by:

Sequoia Maner

Edited by:

Emily Ruth Rutter

Edited by:

Darlene anita Scott