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- Title
The Names Alive Are Like the Names in Graves: Black Life and Black Social Death in Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin.
- Authors
SPINKS, LEE
- Abstract
The article examines the depiction of African American life and African American social death in Terrance Hayes' poems "American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin." It expounds on blackness as the embodiment of social death and the continuing afterlife of slavery and explores the role of antiblackness in organizing American reality for African American and white identities, the relationship between antiblackness and white supremacy, and the possibilities of contesting antiblackness.
- Subjects
AMERICAN Sonnets for My Past &; Future Assassin (Book); HAYES, Terrance, 1971-; AFRICAN Americans; SOCIAL death; SLAVERY; WHITE supremacy; RACIAL identity of white people
- Publication
Intertexts, 2023, Vol 27, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
1092-0625
- Publication type
Poetry Review
- DOI
10.1353/itx.2023.a907254