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245 0 0 _aRevisiting the elegy in the Black Lives Matter era
260 _aNew York :
_aOxon :
_bTaylor & Francis ,
_c2020 .
263 _a2003
300 _a281 pages
520 _a"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"--
650 0 _aElegiac poetry, American
_926596
650 0 _xHistory and criticism
_926597
650 0 _aAfrican Americans in literature
_926598
650 0 _aDeath in literature
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650 0 _aAfrican Americans
_vPoetry
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650 0 _aDeath
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650 0 _aElegiac poetry, American
_926596
650 0 _xAfrican American authors
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650 0 _aAmerican poetry
_y21st century
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700 1 _aAustin, Tiffany
_eeditor
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700 1 _aManer, Sequoia
_eeditor
_926604
700 1 _aRutter, Emily Ruth
_eeditor
_926605
700 1 _ascott, darlene anita
_eeditor
_926606
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_tRevisiting the elegy in the Black lives matter era.
_dNew York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
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