The Specter and the Speculative : Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora / edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton II.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henderson, Mae, editor.

Scheper, Jeanne, 1967- editor.

Melton, Gene, II, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in popular culture.

African Americans--Race identity--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Violence against--History.

Future life.

Collective memory--United States.

Collective memory.

United States--Race relations--History.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"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 re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized, to establish an "afterlife" for African Atlantic identities and narratives. These essays focus on transnational, transdisciplinary, and transhistorical sites of memory and haunting--textual, visual, and embodied performances--in order to examine how these "living" archives circulate and imagine anew the meanings of prior narratives liberated from their original context. Individual essays examine how historical and literary performances--in addition to film, drama, music, dance, and material culture--thus revitalized, transcend and speak across temporal and spatial boundaries not only to reinstate traditional meanings, but also to motivate fresh commentary and critique. Emergent and established scholars representing diverse disciplines and fields of interest specifically engage under explored themes related to afterlives, archives, and haunting"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Introduction: Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton II

Part I: Watery Unrest: Trauma and Diaspora

1. Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! / Diana Arterian

2. "STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY!HUR-RY!": Diaspora, Trauma, and "Rep &amp

Rev" in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus / Christopher Giroux

3. Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata / Stella Setka

Part II: Raising the Dead: Black Sonic Imaginaries

4. 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

5. Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs: Sound, Spectrality, and the Counternarrative / Luis Omar Ceniceros

6. Forbidding Mourning: Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram / Danielle Fuentes Morgan

Part III: Spectral Technologies of Hip-Hop

7. The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art: Hip-Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous / Shamika Ann Mitchell

8. 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

9. "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

Part IV: The Posthumous and the Posthuman

10. DNA as Cultural Memory: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's Fledgling and Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix / Sheila Smith McKoy

11. 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.

12. Africa in Horror Cinema: A Critical Survey / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio Juvé

Part V: "In the Wake": Racial Mourning and Memorialization

13. Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon's Come home Charley Patton / Kajsa K. Henry

14. Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N

-s and Dark Villains: Walking with the Ghosts That Ain't Gone / McKinley E. Melton

15. Mourning Trayvon Martin: Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric / Emily Ruth Rutter

Coda: Post Vitam Amicitiae, or the Afterlife of a Friendship

Acknowledgments

Selected Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-9788-3410-1

OCLC:

1452592155