The Specter and the Speculative

Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
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.

Contributor: Mae G. Henderson (Edited by), Jeanne Scheper (Edited by), Mae G. Henderson (Contributions by), Jeanne Scheper (Contributions by), Diana Arterian (Contributions by), Christopher Giroux (Contributions by), Stella Setka (Contributions by), Meina Yates-Richard (Contributions by), Luis Omar Ceniceros (Contributions by), Danielle Fuentes Morgan (Contributions by), Shamika Ann Mitchell (Contributions by), Andrew R. Belton (Contributions by), Kim White (Contributions by), Sheila Smith McKoy (Contributions by), Pekka Kilpeläinen (Contributions by), Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Contributions by), Emiliano Aguilar (Contributions by), Juan Ignacio Juvé (Contributions by), Kajsa K. Henry (Contributions by), McKinley E. Melton (Contributions by), Emily Ruth Rutter (Contributions by), Gene Melton, II (Edited by), Gene Melton, II (Contributions by)

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