Death Wail in Literature
The death wail is mentioned in many literary works:
"She began the high, whining keen of the death wail...It rose to a high piercing whine and subsided into a moan. Mama raised it three times and then she turned and went into the house..." John Steinbeck's short story "Flight", set in Santa Lucia Mountains
Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions, set in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)
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Famous quotes containing the words death, wail and/or literature:
“Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“See spring is gone,
ah wail, ah wail in vain,
for spring is dead.”
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“The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
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