{"product_id":"conjuring-the-haint-drea-brown-9781496856272","title":"Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women","description":"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, \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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Drea Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496856279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496856272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Drea Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46451225100543,"sku":"9781496856272","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b961077-f9a0-42c1-b3c7-0a8c40d86cae.jpg?v=1735876835","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conjuring-the-haint-drea-brown-9781496856272","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}