Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Many social theorists erroneously set out from the universal only to have their theories dashed on the rocks of the particular. This tends especially to be the case with a particular as pronounced and stubborn as is the experience of Black America. So it is especially welcome that Abdul JanMohamed sets out explicitly and ambitiously to invert this trend, approaching the subjective effects of death not by way of a movement from universal to particular, but rather by first understanding the particularities of the Black experience of the threat of death in the United States. That is, JanMohamed approaches Richard Wright's immense literary corpus with an eye to its implications for broader conceptions of the role of death in the construction of subjectivity.
Repository Citation
Ciccariello-Maher, George. "On Abdul R. JanMohamed's The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright's Archaeology of Death." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 1, 2008, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss1/34