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Conjuring the haint : the haunting poetics of Black women / Drea Brown.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Drea, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- African American women poets--History and criticism.
- African American women poets.
- Grief in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- Stereotypes in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 135 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson, USA : University Press of Mississippi, [2025]
- Contents:
- Cover
- Conjuring the Haint
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Haunted Houses
- Introduction: Waking the Ghost
- 1. Seeing Black and Being Ghosts in Citizen: An American Lyric
- 2. A Haintly Inheritance in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley
- 3. Swan Songs for Jezebel, or Leda Returns Home in Black Swan
- 4. A Ceremony for Sapphire and Rituals of Repair in for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
- Coda: "In This Here Place": A Conjure in the Clearing
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 06, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Brown, Drea, 1979- Conjuring the haint
- ISBN:
- 9781496856319
- 1496856317
- 9781496856296
- 1496856295
- 9781496856289
- 1496856287
- 9781496856302
- 1496856309
- Publisher Number:
- 40032799719
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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