Haunting and displacement in African American literature and culture

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    • Parham, Marisa

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Haunting and displacement in African American literature and culture

Marisa Parham

(Literary criticism and cultural theory)

Routledge, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references(p. [131]-137)and index

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Looking at texts including Jean Toomer's Cane, Toni Morrison's Beloved, James Baldwin's Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memory-conscious and unconscious, individual and collective-often drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Permissions Acknowledgments Introduction: Haunting and Displacement Chapter One: Like Water: Hughes, Cullen, Johnson Chapter Two: "Do You Love Me?": Another Country Chapter Three: Behind Carma and Rosie Chapter Four: Folded Sorrows in Kaufman and Toomer Chapter Five: Saying "Yes" in Kindred Chapter Six: Winding Sheets: Petry and Wright Coda: Future Expectations Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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