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Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual
Jermaine Singleton
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Description for Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual
Hardback. Num Pages: 168 pages, 4 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and film, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform melancholy discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts.
A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, Cultural Melancholy explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using acute analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and film, Singleton demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform melancholy discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. He also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts.
Singleton develops the concept of "cultural melancholy" as a response to scholarship that calls for the separation of ... Read more
Wide-ranging and theoretically bold, Cultural Melancholy counteracts the racial legacy effects that plague our twenty-first century multiculture.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039621
SKU
V9780252039621
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About Jermaine Singleton
Jermaine Singleton is an associate professor of English at Hamline University.
Reviews for Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual
"Jermaine Singleton's Cultural Melancholy is a provocative book that will be well-received in the field of racial melancholia studies, and there is no doubt in my mind that it makes an excellent contribution to performance studies."
Abdul R. JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley "Interesting, fluid, and compelling. Singleton marshals the relevant research on racial mourning and historical trauma to focus specifically ... Read more
Abdul R. JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley "Interesting, fluid, and compelling. Singleton marshals the relevant research on racial mourning and historical trauma to focus specifically ... Read more