The Labors of Resurrection : Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy

著者名：Threadcraft, Shatema

Oxford University Press（2025/10/14発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9780197758571
• eISBN：9780197758601

Description

In this book, Shatema Threadcraft argues that "spectacular" death--experienced publicly and violently--has given rise to global political movements, but it has also had an important gendered effect. Though Black women face a crisis of premature death, their deaths most often occur in private when most large-scale Black political mobilization centers around spectacular deaths. Profiling the resurrective political work of Ida B. Wells and others, Threadcraft highlights how the centrality of spectacular death has functioned to marginalize Black women in the stories of Black peoplehood. In so doing, she looks at the challenge that contemporary feminist activists face in attempting to make violence against Black women visible.

Table of Contents

IntroductionChapter 1: Necropolitics and VisionChapter 2: Taming the Lady Leviathan, Tending the Grassroots: Black Women Confront Black FemicideChapter 3: The Democratic Storytelling of W. E. B. Du BoisChapter 4: Princess. Prophet. Miracle Worker.: Ida B. Wells and the Empirical Miracle, or, Variations on the Black "We"Chapter 5: Emmett Till Is with Us Still: Mamie Till-Bradley, Reincarnation, and the Lynching-as-Crucifixion ScenarioChapter 6: Seeding Restorative Kinship: Clementine Barfield and SOSAD's Otherworldly Democratic HorticultureChapter 7: Revivifying Ephemeral Publics: Margaret Prescod and the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial KillersChapter 8: Toward a Truant Black Feminist Democracy: Toni Morrison and the Democratic Work of the DeadConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex