LEADER 03486nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910811242403321 005 20240505164638.0 010 $a1-317-15445-2 010 $a1-315-57596-5 010 $a1-317-15444-4 010 $a1-282-45425-0 010 $a9786612454257 010 $a0-7546-9602-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000005705 035 $a(EBL)476311 035 $a(OCoLC)609852983 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000358700 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11265270 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358700 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10377776 035 $a(PQKB)10728716 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476311 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10362162 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL922710 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000005705 100 $a20090525d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aDeath in twentieth-century American texts and performances $ecorpses, ghosts, and the reanimated dead /$fedited by Lisa K. Perdigao and Mark Pizzato 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBurlington, VT $cAshgate$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (229 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-7546-6907-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Studying the Corpse; 1 A Representation of Death in an Anti-Vietnam War Play by Luis Valdez: Dark Root of a Scream; 2 Skins of Desire in Evolution: The Black and White Murder Film, Dutchman; 3 DeLillo, Performance, and the Denial of Death; 4 Dust to Dust and the Spaces in Between; PART II Tracing Ghosts; 5 Thornton Wilder's "Eternal Present": Ghosting and the Grave Body in Act III of Our Town; 6 When Ghosts Dream: Immigrant Desire in Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger; 7 A Return to Memory, Possibility, and Life 327 $a8 Ghosts of Proof in the Mind's EyePART III Reanimating the Dead; 9 "For the Union Dead": Robert Lowell's American Necropolis; 10 Locating the Front Line; 11 Televised Death in Don DeLillo's America; 12 "Everything now is measured by after": A Postmortem for the Twenty-First Century; Index 330 $aHow do twentieth-century artists bring forth the powerful reality of death when it exists in memory and lived experience as something that happens only to others? This volume grapples with this paradox, examining literary texts and performance media that include Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, John Edgar Wideman's The Cattle Killing, Anne Sexton's poetry, Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and HBO's Six Feet Under. 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aDeath in literature 606 $aGhosts in literature 606 $aDeath in mass media 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aDeath in literature. 615 0$aGhosts in literature. 615 0$aDeath in mass media. 676 $a810.9 676 $a810.9/3548 676 $a810.935480904 701 $aPerdigao$b Lisa K$01670075 701 $aPizzato$b Mark$f1960-$0176859 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811242403321 996 $aDeath in twentieth-century American texts and performances$94031683 997 $aUNINA