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
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 247 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) and index.
ISBN:9781512601619
9781512601824