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oapen-20.500.12657-306602021-11-15T08:21:22Z Ghosts of the African Diaspora Chassot, Joanne Literature African diaspora Caribbean Diaspora Middle Passage Slavery White people 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. 2018-01-01 23:55:55 2019-05-08 03:00:47 2020-04-01T13:06:30Z 2020-04-01T13:06:30Z 2018-01-02 book 644219 OCN: 1007494508 9781512601824 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30660 eng Re-Mapping the Transnational: A Dartmouth Series in American Studies application/pdf n/a 644219.pdf Dartmouth College Press 101361 f0b8db26-c0aa-4e7a-be0f-2115b9e1a32a b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781512601824 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Hanover, NH USA 101361 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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