Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature

Death and the arc of mourning in African American literature / Anissa Janine Wardi.

Author/creator	Wardi, Anissa Janine, 1969-
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Description	xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	American literature--African American authors --History and criticism. Pastoral literature, American--History and criticism. African Americans in literature. Mourning customs in literature. Rural conditions in literature. Grief in literature. Death in literature.

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".
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-199) and index.
LCCN	2003061691
ISBN	0813026881

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	PS153.B53 W34 2003	✔ Available	Place Hold