The prospect of posthumous citizenship bears important implications for debates over the legal rights of the dead, social histories of burial customs and famous cadavers, and the political theory of citizenship and social death.
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Brian Norman is an associate professor of English and director of African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland. He is author of Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature and The American Protest Essay and National Belonging.
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Demonstrates that the dead, especially women, have been speaking out in American literature well before it was fashionable. *Also appeared in Nov/Dec Buyer's Notes*
This book succeeds splendidly in identifying a meaningful tradition in American letters and demonstrating its value to the understanding of national cultural (and multicultural) membership and memory, literary and otherwise. -- Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories
