Conjuring the Ghost: A Call and Response to Haints. (24th September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: brown, drea
• Is Part Of: Hypatia. Volume 36:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 485
• Page End: 502
• Publication Date: 2021-09-24
• Subjects: Feminist theory -- Periodicals; Feminism -- United States -- Periodicals; Femininity (Philosophy) -- Periodicals; 305.4201
• DOI: 10.1017/hyp.2021.41
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0887-5367

Abstract

Abstract: This article discusses haunting as a condition and strategy for Black women in their lived and literary experiences. I use the haint as a key figure for understanding Black women's liminal state as both the ones haunted and the thing haunting and focus on one of the haint's primary manifestations: the hag. Throughout the essay I unpack maligning myths of this specter and center the works of Phillis Wheatley and Lucille Clifton to refigure the hag as a spiritual and ancestral presence.