{"product_id":"conjuring-the-haint-the-haunting-poetics-of-black-women-hardback-9781496856265","title":"Conjuring the Haint; The Haunting Poetics of Black Women (Hardback) 9781496856265","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eConjuring the Haint\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Haunting Poetics of Black Women\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDrea Brown (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496856265\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.1 cm, 0.262 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003eBlack to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eQueer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat 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, \u003ci\u003eConjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women \u003c\/i\u003eposits that for Black women, haunting is both a condition and a strategy in lived experiences and literary productions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLooking at the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Ntozake Shange, Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, and Claudia Rankine, \u003ci\u003eConjuring the Haint\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eConjuring the Haint\u003c\/i\u003e refigures haints as a means of recognition and self-possession, a manifestation of the ancestral and divine.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Haunted Houses\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Waking the Ghost\u003cbr\u003e1. Seeing Black and Being Ghosts in \u003ci\u003eCitizen: An American Lyric\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. A Haintly Inheritance in the Poetry of Lucille Clifton and Phillis Wheatley\u003cbr\u003e3. Swan Songs for Jezebel, or Leda Returns Home in \u003ci\u003eBlack Swan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. A Ceremony for Sapphire and Rituals of Repair in \u003ci\u003efor colored girls who have considered suicide\/when the rainbow is enuf\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoda: \"In This Here Place\": A Conjure in the Clearing\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607727632664,"sku":"9781496856265","price":60.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/conjuring-the-haint-the-haunting-poetics-of-black-women-hardback-9781496856265","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}