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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 Films, 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 Purp

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Author

Jermaine Singleton

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252097713

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Social Science