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Archives of the Black Atlantic : reading between literature and history /
"Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an inter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in Atlantic studies ;
6. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.