The Grasp That Reaches Beyond The Grave

Author : Venetria K. Patton
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438447377

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The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave by Venetria K. Patton Pdf

Explores black women writers’ treatment of the ancestor figure. The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison’s Beloved,Tananarive Due’s The Between, and Julie Dash’s film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as “natally dead” has impacted African American women writers’ emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.

Author : Agnieszka Kotwasińska
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781837720149

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House of Horrors by Agnieszka Kotwasińska Pdf

This is a study of tumultuous transformations of kinship and intimate relationships in American horror fiction over the last three decades. Twelve contemporary novels (by ten women writers and two whose work has been identified as women’s fiction) are grouped into four main thematic clusters – haunted houses; monsters; vampires; and hauntings – but it is social scripts and concerns linked directly to intimacy and family life that structure the entire volume. By drawing attention to how the most intimate of all social relationships – the family – supports and replicates social hierarchies, exclusions, and struggles for dominance, the book problematises the source of horror. The consideration of horror narratives through the lens of familial intimacies makes it possible to rethink genre boundaries, to question the efficacy of certain genre tropes, and to consider the contribution of such diverse authors as Kathe Koja, Tananarive Due, Gwendolyn Kiste, Elizabeth Engstrom, Sara Gran and Caitlín R. Kiernan.

Author : Joyce White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793646644

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Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat by Joyce White Pdf

Ecology, Spirituality, and Cosmology in Edwidge Danticat: Crossroads as Ritual employs nature, literary tradition, and the cosmogram to examine Danticat's fiction as textual sites imbued with ritual and conducive for healing and clarifying Africana diasporic consciousness.

Author : Kinitra D. Brooks
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813584645

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Searching for Sycorax by Kinitra D. Brooks Pdf

Searching for Sycorax highlights the unique position of Black women in horror as both characters and creators. Kinitra D. Brooks creates a racially gendered critical analysis of African diasporic women, challenging the horror genre’s historic themes and interrogating forms of literature that have often been ignored by Black feminist theory. Brooks examines the works of women across the African diaspora, from Haiti, Trinidad, and Jamaica, to England and the United States, looking at new and canonized horror texts by Nalo Hopkinson, NK Jemisin, Gloria Naylor, and Chesya Burke. These Black women fiction writers take advantage of horror’s ability to highlight U.S. white dominant cultural anxieties by using Africana folklore to revise horror’s semiotics within their own imaginary. Ultimately, Brooks compares the legacy of Shakespeare’s Sycorax (of The Tempest) to Black women writers themselves, who, deprived of mainstream access to self-articulation, nevertheless influence the trajectory of horror criticism by forcing the genre to de-centralize whiteness and maleness.

Author : Camille S. Alexander
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666926767

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Black Witches and Queer Ghosts by Camille S. Alexander Pdf

This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of the Other in the media. This collection explores depictions of characters of color and/or LGBTQ characters in teen supernatural serials who were/are marginalized and examines the possible issues that these depictions can raise on a social level and, possibly, a developmental level for audience members who belong to these communities. The essays included in this collection thoroughly examine these characters and their narratives while providing nuanced examinations of how the media chooses to represent teens of color and LGBTQIA+ teens.

Author : Sami Schalk
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822371830

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Bodyminds Reimagined by Sami Schalk Pdf

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds—the intertwinement of the mental and the physical—in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates that this genre's political potential lies in the authors' creation of bodyminds that transcend reality's limitations. She reads (dis)ability in neo-slave narratives by Octavia Butler (Kindred) and Phyllis Alesia Perry (Stigmata) not only as representing the literal injuries suffered under slavery, but also as a metaphor for the legacy of racial violence. The fantasy worlds in works by N. K. Jemisin, Shawntelle Madison, and Nalo Hopkinson—where werewolves have obsessive-compulsive-disorder and blind demons can see magic—destabilize social categories and definitions of the human, calling into question the very nature of identity. In these texts, as well as in Butler’s Parable series, able-mindedness and able-bodiedness are socially constructed and upheld through racial and gendered norms. Outlining (dis)ability's centrality to speculative fiction, Schalk shows how these works open new social possibilities while changing conceptualizations of identity and oppression through nonrealist contexts.

Author : Venetria K. Patton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438447384

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The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave by Venetria K. Patton Pdf

The Grasp That Reaches beyond the Grave investigates the treatment of the ancestor figure in Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Tananarive Due's The Between, and Julie Dash's film, Daughters of the Dust in order to understand how they draw on African cosmology and the interrelationship of ancestors, elders, and children to promote healing within the African American community. Venetria K. Patton suggests that the experience of slavery with its concomitant view of black women as "natally dead" has impacted African American women writers' emphasis on elders and ancestors as they seek means to counteract notions of black women as somehow disconnected from the progeny of their wombs. This misperception is in part addressed via a rich kinship system, which includes the living and the dead. Patton notes an uncanny connection between depictions of elder, ancestor, and child figures in these texts and Kongo cosmology. These references suggest that these works are examples of Africanisms or African retentions, which continue to impact African American culture.

Author : Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496840431

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Start a Riot! by Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani Pdf

While the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic writings. Start a Riot! Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and Poetry analyzes riot iconography and its usefulness as a political strategy of protestation. Through a mixed-methods approach of literary close-reading, historical, and sociological analysis, Casarae Lavada Abdul-Ghani considers how BAM artist-writers like Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Ben Caldwell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, and Henry Dumas challenge misconceptions regarding Black protest through experimental explorations in their writings. Representations of riots became more pronounced in the 1960s as pivotal leaders shaping Black consciousness, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., were assassinated. BAM artist-writers sought to override the public's interpretation in their literary exposés that a riot’s disjointed and disorderly methods led to more chaos than reparative justice. Start a Riot! uncovers how BAM artist-writers expose anti-Black racism and, by extension, the United States' inability to compromise with Black America on matters related to citizenship rights, housing (in)security, economic inequality, and education—tenets emphasized during the Black Power Movement. Abdul-Ghani argues that BAM artist-writers did not merely write literature that reflected a spirit of protest; in many cases, they understood their texts, themselves, as acts of protest.

Author : Minot Judson Savage
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : History
ISBN : UOMDLP:afy1763:0001.001

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The Religion of Evolution by Minot Judson Savage Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89007288954

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Current Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Frank Crane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74712651

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Current Opinion ... by Edward Jewitt Wheeler,Frank Crane Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106019921243

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Current Opinion by Anonim Pdf

Author : George D Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555010533

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Journal of discourses. By B. Young [and others]. Reported by G.D. Watt [and others]. by George D Watt Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Mormon Church
ISBN : NYPL:33433082159181

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Journal of Discourses by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Religious education
ISBN : NYPL:33433074969480

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The Sunday School Journal by Anonim Pdf