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245 10 a| Conjuring the haint :b| the haunting poetics of Black women /c| Drea Brown.;

264 1 a| Jackson :b| University Press of Mississippi,c| [2025];

300 a| viii, 135 pages ;c| 22 cm.;

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490 1 a| Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

520 a| "What does it mean to live as a ghost, to live with ghosts, and how might ghosts lead to a path of healing and reimagining? Through an investigation of the intimate relationship between haunting and grief, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women posits that for Black women, haunting is both a condition and a strategy in lived experiences and literary productions. Looking at the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Ntozake Shange, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, and Claudia Rankine, Conjuring the Haint explores primary stereotypes of Black women. They are aligned with unruly incarnations of the haint, probing the eerie similarities between this specter and one-dimensional imaginings of Black womanhood, examining how this haintliness manifests in Black women's elegies, the poetry of grief. Disrupting a tradition of consolation and poetic succession, Black women's elegies rework the genre by wrestling with multiple forms of death: physical, social, and spiritual. These elegies aim both to lay to rest and to resurrect. Black women poets are then repositioned as conjurers who, through the spirit work of poetry, reckon with haints as complex figures of despair and repair. Each chapter explores the paradox of haints, as evidence of injury and loss and as a pathway to knowledge articulated by various incarnations-the hag, the banshee, and the vengeful revenant. Chapters place these against pervasive images of Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire. Through a pairing and dismantling of these ill-fitting myths, Conjuring the Haint refigures haints as a means of recognition and self-possession, a manifestation of the ancestral and divine"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Conjuring the haint : the haunting poetics of Black women / Drea Brown.

Author/creator	Brown, Drea, 1979- author.
Format	Book
Publication	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2025]
Copyright Date	©2025
Description	viii, 135 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects	American poetry--African American authors. --History and criticism. African American women poets--History and criticism. Grief in literature. African Americans in literature. Stereotypes in literature.

Series	Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies Margaret Walker Alexander series in African American studies. ^A446952
Abstract	"What does it mean to live as a ghost, to live with ghosts, and how might ghosts lead to a path of healing and reimagining? Through an investigation of the intimate relationship between haunting and grief, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women posits that for Black women, haunting is both a condition and a strategy in lived experiences and literary productions. Looking at the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Ntozake Shange, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, and Claudia Rankine, Conjuring the Haint explores primary stereotypes of Black women. They are aligned with unruly incarnations of the haint, probing the eerie similarities between this specter and one-dimensional imaginings of Black womanhood, examining how this haintliness manifests in Black women's elegies, the poetry of grief. Disrupting a tradition of consolation and poetic succession, Black women's elegies rework the genre by wrestling with multiple forms of death: physical, social, and spiritual. These elegies aim both to lay to rest and to resurrect. Black women poets are then repositioned as conjurers who, through the spirit work of poetry, reckon with haints as complex figures of despair and repair. Each chapter explores the paradox of haints, as evidence of injury and loss and as a pathway to knowledge articulated by various incarnations-the hag, the banshee, and the vengeful revenant. Chapters place these against pervasive images of Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire. Through a pairing and dismantling of these ill-fitting myths, Conjuring the Haint refigures haints as a means of recognition and self-possession, a manifestation of the ancestral and divine"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other form	Online version: brown, drea. Conjuring the haint Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2025 9781496856289
LCCN	2025004335
ISBN	9781496856272
ISBN	9781496856265 hardcover
ISBN	1496856260 hardcover
ISBN	1496856279 (paperback)
ISBN	electronic book
ISBN	electronic book
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