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Living cargo : how Black Britain performs its past /

Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, "Living Cargo" explores how contemporary black British culture...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Blevins, Steven, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: history unhoused: performing the life of human bio-cargo
  • History and human cargo
  • Beautiful remnants, brutal remains: dwelling on the melancholy archive
  • Living rough: the disposition and dispensation of aleatory life
  • Assembling human bio-cargo. Compound fractures: archival constellations, narrative violations
  • Blood pressures: queer inheritance and intimate affiliations
  • Exorbitant life in an age of austerity. Bespoke history: redressing the past, tailoring the present, fashioning the future
  • @Bristol: dissident publics in a neoliberal city.