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Archives of the Black Atlantic : Reading Between Literature and History / Wendy W. Walters.
Van Pelt Library PS153.N5 W337 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walters, Wendy W.
- Series:
- Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; #6.
- Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies ; #6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--African American authors.
- Literature and history--United States.
- Literature and history.
- United States.
- African diaspora.
- African Americans--Intellectual life.
- African Americans.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Black historical literature and the archive
- Fiction and documents: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda
- Archives of anthropology and psychoanalysis: V.Y. Mudimbe's The Rift
- Prison or paradise? archiving the black American West in Toni Morrison's Paradise
- Elizabeth Alexander's "Amistad": reading the black history poem through the archive
- "Object into subject": Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and the slave ship
- The spectral ledger: Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts
- Reading the archive, looking for bones
- Epilogue: Toward an aspirational archive.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415821513
- 0415821517
- OCLC:
- 810534195
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