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.
| ISBN: | 9780415888585 |
| Publication date: | 23rd August 2010 |
| Author: | Marisa Parham |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 162 pages |
| Series: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general |
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.
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture features in the following genres: Literary studies: general
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture is available in Paperback, Hardback
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture was written by Marisa Parham and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture has 162 pages
Yes it is part of Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory series
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