| Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era Contributor(s): Austin, Tiffany (Editor), Maner, Sequoia (Editor), Rutter, Emily Ruth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0367276380 ISBN-13: 9780367276386 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | Modern - 21st Century |
| Dewey: 811.009 |
| LCCN: 2019038577 |
| Series: Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (1.20 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |