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Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women(Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies)


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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.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
A Note on Haunted Houses
Introduction: Waking the Ghost
1. Seeing Black and Being Ghosts in Citizen: An American Lyric
2. A Haintly Inheritance in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley
3. Swan Songs for Jezebel, or Leda Returns Home in Black Swan
4. A Ceremony for Sapphire and Rituals of Repair in for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Coda: "In This Here Place": A Conjure in the Clearing
Notes
References
Index



About the Author :
Drea Brown is a Black queer feminist poet-scholar, author of dear girl: a reckoning, and coeditor of Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature. brown is assistant professor in the Department of English at Texas State University.

Review :
"With the emphasis on horror and the speculative in African American writing, this book is likely to join a growing body of work that examines traditional sites of horror/haunting. Reading like both poetry and theory, this book performs a Black feminist analysis of the ‘haint’ by exploring the gendered implications of the haint’s appearance in Black poems and texts and as such, is an invaluable contribution to the growing field of critical work on the speculative/horror in Black writing." - Stefanie K. Dunning, author of Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture and Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture


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  • ISBN-13: 9781496856265
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Series Title: Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1496856260
  • Publisher Date: 16 Jun 2025
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women


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