Cultural melancholy
A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, 'Cultural Melancholy' explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and films, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform melancholy discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible m…
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- Full title :Cultural melancholy / Jermaine Singleton.
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A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, 'Cultural Melancholy' explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and films, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform melancholy discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication:Urbana [Illinois]
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (169 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780252097713, 0252097718
- oclc:ocn971096387
- LC Classification:PS153.N5
- Dewey Decimal:810.9/896073
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Melancholy That Is Not Her Own: The Evolution of the Blueswoman and the Consolidation of; 2 Reconstituted Melancholy: Impossible Mourning and the Prevalence of Ritual and Race in August; 3 The Melancholy of Faith: Reading the Gendered and Sexual Politics of Testifying in James Baldwin's; 4 Queering Celie's Same-Sex Desire: Impossible Mourning, Trauma, and Heterosexual Failure in Alice; 5 A Clearing beyond the Melancholic Haze: Staging Racial Grieving in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus and.
Coda: On Conformity to the Category of Time (Race)Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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