Ghosts of the African Diaspora : Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity

Ghosts of the African Diaspora Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity

The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers-Fred D'Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Chassot, Joanne author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hanover, NH USA Dartmouth College Press 2018
Hanover, New Hampshire : [2018]
Colección:Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies
Materias:
African Americans in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Ghosts in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Literature
African diaspora
Caribbean
Diaspora
Middle Passage
Slavery
White people
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: tracing the ghost
  • "Voyage through death to life upon these shores": Representing the Middle Passage
  • Dusky Sallys: re-visioning the silences of history
  • "You best remember them!": repossessing the spirit of diaspora
  • "A ghost-life": queering the limits of identity
  • Afterword: learning to live with ghosts.

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