(Ebook) Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual by Jermaine Singleton ISBN 9780252039621, 0252039629

(Ebook) Cultural Melancholy: Readings of Race, Impossible Mourning, and African American Ritual by Jermaine Singleton ISBN 9780252039621, 0252039629

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 purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency.

Wide-ranging and theoretically bold, Cultural Melancholy counteracts the racial legacy effects that plague our twenty-first century multiculture.