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

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]
	©2003

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	PS153.B53 W34 2003	Available	---

Description	xiv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-199) and index.
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."
Subject	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- African American authors.
	Pastoral literature, American -- History and criticism.
	Pastoral literature, American.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Mourning customs in literature.
	Mourning customs in literature.
	Rural conditions in literature.
	Rural conditions in literature.
	Grief in literature.
	Grief in literature.
	Death in literature.
	Death in literature.
ISBN	0813026881 acid-free paper