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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 engages in a critical conversation about how historical subjects and historical texts within the African Diaspora are refashioned, reanimated and rearticulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized and defamiliarized, to es...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Henderson, Mae (Editor), Melton, Gene, II (Editor), Scheper, Jeanne, 1967- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2024].
Subjects:
African Americans in popular culture.
African Americans > Race identity > History.
African Americans > Violence against > History.
Collective memory > United States.
Future life.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip's "Zong!" / Diana Arterian
  • "Step in Step in, Hur-ry! Hur-ry! : Diaspora, Trauma, and "Rep & Rev" in Suzan-Lori Parks's "Venus" / Christopher Giroux
  • Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry's "Stigmata" / Stella Setka
  • The Sonic Afterlives of Hester's Scream : The Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women's Pain in the Black Nationalist Imagination from Slavery to Black Lives Matter / Meina Yates-Richard
  • Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs : Sound, Spectrality, and the Counter Narrative / Luis Omar Ceniceros
  • Forbidding Mourning : Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram / Danielle Fuentes Morgan
  • The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art : Hip Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous / Shamika Ann Mitchell
  • Dreaming of "Life After Death When You're Ready to Die" : Notorious B.I.G. and the Sonic Potentialities of Black Afterlife / Andrew R. Belton
  • "We ain't even really rappin', we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us" : Kendrick Lamar, Radical Popular Hip Hop, and the Specters of Slavery and Its Afterlife / Kim White
  • DNA as Cultural Memory : Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's "Fledgling" and Nnedi Okorafor's "The Book of Phoenix" / Sheila Smith McKoy
  • Ghosts of Traumatic Cultural Memory : Haunting, Posthumanism, and Animism in Daniel Black's "The Sacred Place" and Bernice L. McFadden's "Gathering of Waters" / Pekka Kilpeläinen
  • Africa in Horror Cinema : A Critical Survey / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio JuvĂ©
  • Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon's "Come home Charley Patton" / Kajsa K. Henry
  • Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N*ggers and Dark Villains : Walking with the Ghosts That Ain't Gone / McKinley E. Melton
  • Mourning Trayvon Martin : Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric" / Emily Ruth Rutter.