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The death-bound-subject : Richard Wright's archaeology of death /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: JanMohamed, Abdul R., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2005.
Series:Post-contemporary interventions.
Subjects:
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960 > Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans in literature.
Violence in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Death in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the culture of social-death
  • Uncle Tom's children : dialectics of death
  • Native son : symbolic-death
  • Black boy : negation of death-bound-subjectivity
  • The outsider : patricidal desires
  • Savage holiday : matricide and infanticide
  • The long dream : death and the paternal function
  • Renegotiating the death contract.