Revisiting the elegy in the Black Lives Matter era
- New York : Oxon : Taylor & Francis , 2020 .
- 281 pages
"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"--
9780367276386 9780367321581
2019038577
Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism
African Americans in literature
Death in literature
African Americans--Poetry
Death
Elegiac poetry, American--African American authors
American poetry--21st century
PS309.N4 / R48 2020
811.040
"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"--
9780367276386 9780367321581
2019038577
Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism
African Americans in literature
Death in literature
African Americans--Poetry
Death
Elegiac poetry, American--African American authors
American poetry--21st century
PS309.N4 / R48 2020
811.040