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The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

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Black American HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 1978834063
ISBN13: 9781978834064
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 31 2024
Pages: 334
Weight: 1.35
Height: 0.78 Width: 7.07 Depth: 9.95
Language: English
The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized, to establish an afterlife for African Atlantic identities and narratives. These essays focus on transnational, transdisciplinary, and transhistorical sites of memory and haunting--textual, visual, and embodied performances--in order to examine how these living archives circulate and imagine anew the meanings of prior narratives liberated from their original context. Individual essays examine how historical and literary performances--in addition to film, drama, music, dance, and material culture--thus revitalized, transcend and speak across temporal and spatial boundaries not only to reinstate traditional meanings, but also to motivate fresh commentary and critique. Emergent and established scholars representing diverse disciplines and fields of interest specifically engage under explored themes related to afterlives, archives, and haunting.

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