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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, and T...

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Main Author: Chassot, Joanne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hanover, New Hampshire : Dartmouth College Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ghosts in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
American literature > African American authors.
African diaspora in literature.
African Americans in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Noirs americains dans la litterature.
Memoire collective dans la litterature.
Africains > Pays etrangers, dans la litterature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Summary: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, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers' engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781512601824
Access:Open Access

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