Death Rights Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism

Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes-the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studi...

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Main Author: Koretsky, Deanna P. (auth)
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Language:English
Published: State University of New York Press 2021
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