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Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History

Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

Literary CriticismBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 0415821517
ISBN13: 9780415821513
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 20 2013
Pages: 204
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This book reads black historical novels and poetry as an invitation to re-examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. It shows that black historical literature takes us back to the archive, exposing the instability of the archive's truth claim to highlight how it is culturally constructed and open to hermeneutics, suggesting that the references to archival documents in black historical literature introduce a new methodology for studying both the archive and literature.

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