Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era

<p><em>Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era</em> is an edited collection of critical essays and poetry that investigates contemporary elegy within the black diaspora. Scores of contemporary writers have turned to elegiac poetry and prose in order to militate against the white supremacist logic that has led to recent deaths of unarmed black men women and children. This volume combines scholarly and creative understandings of the elegy in order to discern how mourning feeds our political awareness in this dystopian time as writers attempt to see hear and say something in relation to the bodies of the dead as well as to living readers. Moreover this book provides a model for how to productively interweave theoretical and deeply personal accounts to encourage discussions about art and activism that transgress disciplinary boundaries as well as lines of race gender class and nation.</p>