Revisiting the elegy in the Black Lives Matter era /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Other Authors:	Austin, Tiffany, 1975-2018 (Editor), Maner, Sequoia (Editor), Rutter, Emily Ruth (Editor), scott, darlene anita (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:	Routledge research in American literature and culture.
Subjects:	Elegiac poetry, American > History and criticism. American poetry > African American authors > 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. Black lives matter movement. 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 Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Preface : "Where will all that beauty go?" : a tribute to poet-scholar Tiffany Austin / Emily Ruth Rutter
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.