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Title:

Revisiting the elegy in the Black Lives Matter era / edited by Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Ruth Rutter, and darlene anita scott.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xv, 281 pages illustration ; 23 cm

Subject:

Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism.
American poetry--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
African Americans in literature.
Death in literature.
African Americans--Poetry.
Death--Poetry.
Elegiac poetry, American.
American poetry--African American authors.
American poetry--21st century.
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Social conditions
American literature--African American authors
American poetry--African American authors
Black lives matter movement
Elegiac poetry, American
Hate crimes
Lynching
Mass media--Political aspects
Protest movements
Race relations
Racial profiling in law enforcement
Racism
Social media--Political aspects
United States
2000-2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Austin, Tiffany, 1975-2018, editor.
Maner, Sequoia, editor.
Rutter, Emily Ruth, editor.
scott, darlene anita, editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

'Where will all that beauty go?' : a tribute to poet-scholar Tiffany Austin / Emily Ruth Rutter -- Elegiac resistance : an introduction to revisiting the elegy in the Black Lives Matter era / Emily Ruth Rutter, Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, and darlene anita scott -- Denormativizing elegy : historical and transnational journeying in the Black Lives Matter poetics of Patricia Smith, Aja Monet, and Shane McCrae / Laura Vrana -- The didactic and elegiac modes of Claudia Rankine's Citizen : an American lyric / Maureen Gallagher -- Lucille Clifton's and Claudia Rankine's Elegiac poetics of nature / Anne Rashid -- In terrible fruitfulness : Arthur Jafa's Love is the message, the message is death and the not-lost Southern accent / J. Peter Moore -- Black Lives Matter and legal reconstructions of elegiac forms / Almas Khan -- Anatomizing the body, diagnosing the country : reading the elegies of Patricia Smith / Sequoia Maner -- 'A diagnosis is an ending' : pathology and presence in Bettina Judd's Patient / Deborah M. Mix -- 'A cause divinely spun' : the poet in an age of social unrest / Licia Morrow Hendriks -- Edwidge Danticat's elegiac project : a transnational historiography of U.S. Imperialist state violence / Megan Feifer and Maia Butler -- Loving you is complicated : empire of Language #4 / Brother Yao (Hoke S. Glover III) -- An interview with Amanda Johnston, co-founder of Black Poets Speak Out / Sequoia Maner.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Routledge research in American literature and culture

ISBN:

0367321580
9780367321581
0367276380
9780367276386

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1110486068

LCCN:

2019038577

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)