JanMohamed / Fish / Jameson The Death-Bound-Subject

Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8662-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 342 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

A literary exploration of the prevalence of death--its connection to political oppression and its use as salvation--in Richard Wright’s work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

JanMohamed, Abdul R.

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

1. Introduction: the Culture of Social-Death 1

2. Uncle Tom's Children: Dialectics of Death 45

3. Native Son: Symbolic-Death 77

4. Black Boy: Negation of Death-Bound-Subjectivity 138

5. The Outsider: Patricidal Desires 175

6. Savage Holiday: Matricide and Infanticide 210

7. The Long Dream: Death and the Paternal Function 233

8. Renegotiating the Death Contract 266

Notes 301

Works Cited 317

Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Abdul R. JanMohamed is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa and a coeditor of The Nature and Context of Minority Discourse.