In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction

Ginetta E. B. Candelario
pp. 299-301
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Daughtersong Diaspore

Barbara Jane Reyes
pp. 302-306
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The Uses of Mourning: An Introduction

Kimberly Juanita Brown, Jyoti Puri
pp. 307-316
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The Mourning of My Birth in the Wake of Grandma’s One Hundredth Year

K. Melchor Quick Hall
pp. 317-333
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Mothers, Daughters, and the Lash: Mourning the Mother Tongue in Toni Morrison’s Mercy

Courtney R. Baker
pp. 334-349
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Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey

Aslı Zengin
pp. 350-370
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss

Nancy Kang
pp. 371-396
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Proactive Grief: Palestinian Reflections on Death

Eman Ghanayem
pp. 397-412
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Techniques of Abstraction in Black Arts: A Feminist Review Essay

Kelli Moore
pp. 413-435
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Mourning Methods: Weaving, Burning, Excision, and Preservation

Amanda Russhell Wallace
pp. 436-454
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A Light for a Light: Minoritarian Aesthetics and the Politics of Grief-Work

Sandra Ruiz
pp. 455-479
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Unweepable Wounds Unwept: Mother Loss, Mourning, and Melancholia in Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig

Patricia Ann Lott
pp. 480-505
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Four Poems from a Lesbian Diasporic Body

Emer Lyons
pp. 506-511
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Mothering Dead Bodies: Black Maternal Necropolitics

Tiffany Caesar, Desireé Melonas, Tara Jones
pp. 512-537
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