Sharon Patricia Holland
Raising the Dead, is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of deathâ€™s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through â€œthe space of deathâ€ gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide.,	Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other â€œminoritiesâ€ in society is, like death, â€œalmost unspeakable.â€ She gives voice toâ€”or raisesâ€”the dead through her examination of works such as the movie ,Menace II Society,, Toni Morrisonâ€™s novel ,Beloved,, Leslie Marmon Silkoâ€™s ,Almanac of the Dead,, Randall Kenanâ€™s ,A Visitation of Spirits,, and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory.,Raising the Dead, will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.
Criticism,Literary Criticism,Cultural,African American,Academic,Academia,Philosophy,Theory
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity