Immaterial archives : an African diaspora poetics of loss /

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"'Immaterial Archives' addresses the absence of documentary evidence concerning the lives of black people who were immaterial to the archiving process. Unlike other literary studies, it does not present black Atlantic art and literature as an alternative archive. The creative works of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Sharpe, Jenny (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2020]
Series:FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
Subjects:
Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism.
Arts, Caribbean.
African diaspora in art.
African diaspora in literature.
Littérature antillaise (anglaise) > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans l'art.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the shape of immateriality
  • Silence: the archive and affective memory
  • The invisible: Haitian art and a vodou archive of slavery
  • Word holes: spirit voices in the recording machine
  • Dreamstories: the virtuality of archival recovery.

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