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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Austin, Tiffany, 1975-2018, editor.

Maner, Sequoia, editor.

Rutter, Emily Ruth, editor.

scott, darlene anita, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Routledge research in American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elegiac poetry, American--History and criticism.

Elegiac poetry, American.

American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.

American poetry.

American poetry--African American authors.

American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

African Americans in literature.

Death in literature.

African Americans--Poetry.

African Americans.

Death--Poetry.

Death.

American poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 281 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Revisiting the elegy in the Black lives matter era.

ISBN:

9780367853549

036785354X

Publisher Number:

99984159554

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.