Afro-Atlantic flight : speculative returns and the Black fantastic /

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Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their anc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Commander, Michelle D., 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Temas:
African diaspora.
Slave trade > Africa, West.
Back to Africa movement.
Heritage tourism.
Black people > United States.
Black people > Brazil.
Africains > Pays étrangers.
Esclaves > Commerce > Afrique occidentale.
Retour en Afrique (Mouvement)
Tourisme culturel.
Personnes noires > États-Unis.
Personnes noires > Brésil.
cultural tourism.
HISTORY > World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African diaspora
Heritage tourism
Back to Africa movement
Black people
Slave trade
West Africa
Brazil
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fantastic flights : the search for ancestral traces in Black speculative narratives
  • The production of homeland returns : misrecognitions and the unsteady path toward the Black fantastic in Ghana
  • "We love to be Africans" : Saudade and affective performances in Bahia, Brazil
  • Crafting symbolic Africas in a geography of silence : return travels to and the renarrativization of the U.S. South
  • Conclusion. "Say me my name" : genetic science and emerging speculative technologies in the construction of Afro-Atlantic reconciliatory projects.

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