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

By: Mae G. Henderson and Jeanne Scheper and Gene Melton and Diana Arterian and Christopher Giroux and Stella Setka and Meina Yates-Richard and Luis Omar Ceniceros and Danielle Fuentes Morgan and Shamika Ann Mitchell and Andrew R. Belton and Kim White and Sheila Smith McKoy and Pekka Kilpeläinen and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Emiliano Aguilar and Juan Ignacio Juvé and Kajsa K. Henry and McKinley E. Melton and Emily Ruth Rutter

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 334 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781978834064
Related ISBNs:: 9781978834101, 9781978834071
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 08/15/24
Copyrighted By:: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Mae G. Henderson
Edited by:: Jeanne Scheper
Edited by:: Gene Melton