Cultural Melancholy : Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual
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| Title: | Cultural Melancholy : Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual |
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| Description: | 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 critical race studies and psychoanalysis, excludes queer theoretical approaches from readings of African American literatures and cultures, and overlooks the status of racialized performance culture as a site of serious academic theorization. In doing so, he weaves critical race studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and performance studies into conversation to uncover a host of hidden dialogues—psychic and social, personal and political, individual and collective—for the purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency. Wide-ranging and theoretically bold, Cultural Melancholy counteracts the racial legacy effects that plague our twenty-first century multiculture. |
| Authors: | Jermaine Singleton |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Grief in literature, American literature--African American authors--History and criticism, Mourning customs--United States, African Americans--Race identity--History |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies |
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