The Specter and the Speculative: Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora
Editat de Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, Gene Melton, II Contribuţii de Diana Arterian, Christopher Giroux, Stella Setka, Meina Yates-Richard, Luis Omar Ceniceros, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Shamika Ann Mitchell, Andrew R. Belton, Kim White, Sheila Smith McKoy, Pekka Kilpeläinen, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, Juan Ignacio Juvé, Kajsa K. Henry, McKinley E. Melton, Emily Ruth Rutteren Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mai 2024 – vârsta ani
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781978834064
ISBN-10: 1978834063
Pagini: 254
Ilustrații: 7 color and 7 B-W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 1978834063
Pagini: 254
Ilustrații: 7 color and 7 B-W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 178 x 254 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
Mae G. Henderson is a professor emerita in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the co-editor of The Josephine Baker Critical Reader: Selected Writings on the Entertainer and Activist (2017) and author of Speaking in Tongues and Dancing Diaspora: Black Women Writing and Performing (2014).
Jeanne Scheper is an associate professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
Gene Melton II is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. His work has appeared in Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison (2013).
Jeanne Scheper is an associate professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies at University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage (Rutgers University Press, 2016).
Gene Melton II is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. His work has appeared in Contested Boundaries: New Critical Essays on the Fiction of Toni Morrison (2013).
Cuprins
Introduction
Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton
Part I
Watery Unrest: Trauma and Diaspora
one
Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
Diana Arterian
two
“STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY! HUR-RY!”:
Diaspora, Trauma, and “Rep & Rev” in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus
Christopher Giroux
three
Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata
Stella Setka
Part II
Raising the Dead: Black Sonic Imaginaries
four
The Sonic Afterlives of Hester’s Scream: The Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in the Black Nationalist Imagination from Slavery to Black Lives Matter
Meina Yates-Richard
five
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs: Sound, Spectrality, and the Counternarrative
Luis Omar Ceniceros
six
Forbidding Mourning: Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram
Danielle Fuentes Morgan
Part III
Spectral Technologies of Hip-Hop
seven
The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art: Hip-Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous
Shamika Ann Mitchell
eight
Dreaming of Life After Death When You’re Ready to Die: Notorious B.I.G. and the Sonic Potentialities of Black Afterlife
Andrew R. Belton
nine
“We Ain’t Even Really Rappin’, We Just Letting Our Dead Homies Tell Stories for Us”: Kendrick Lamar, Radical Popular Hip-Hop, and the Specters of Slavery and Its Afterlife 169
Kim White
Part IV
The Posthumous and the Posthuman
ten
DNA as Cultural Memory: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
Sheila Smith McKoy
eleven
Ghosts of Traumatic Cultural Memory: Haunting, Posthumanism, and Animism in Daniel Black’s The Sacred Place and Bernice L. McFadden’s Gathering of Waters
Pekka Kilpeläinen
twelve
Africa in Horror Cinema: A Critical Survey
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio Juvé
Part V
“In the Wake”: Racial Mourning and Memorialization
thirteen
Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton
Kajsa K. Henry
fourteen
Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N*ggers and Dark Villains: Walking with the Ghosts That Ain’t Gone
McKinley E. Melton
fifteen
Mourning Trayvon Martin: Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Emily Ruth Rutter
Coda: Post Vitam Amicitiae, or the Afterlife of a Friendship
Mae G. Henderson
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton
Part I
Watery Unrest: Trauma and Diaspora
one
Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!
Diana Arterian
two
“STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY! HUR-RY!”:
Diaspora, Trauma, and “Rep & Rev” in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus
Christopher Giroux
three
Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata
Stella Setka
Part II
Raising the Dead: Black Sonic Imaginaries
four
The Sonic Afterlives of Hester’s Scream: The Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in the Black Nationalist Imagination from Slavery to Black Lives Matter
Meina Yates-Richard
five
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs: Sound, Spectrality, and the Counternarrative
Luis Omar Ceniceros
six
Forbidding Mourning: Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram
Danielle Fuentes Morgan
Part III
Spectral Technologies of Hip-Hop
seven
The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art: Hip-Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous
Shamika Ann Mitchell
eight
Dreaming of Life After Death When You’re Ready to Die: Notorious B.I.G. and the Sonic Potentialities of Black Afterlife
Andrew R. Belton
nine
“We Ain’t Even Really Rappin’, We Just Letting Our Dead Homies Tell Stories for Us”: Kendrick Lamar, Radical Popular Hip-Hop, and the Specters of Slavery and Its Afterlife 169
Kim White
Part IV
The Posthumous and the Posthuman
ten
DNA as Cultural Memory: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix
Sheila Smith McKoy
eleven
Ghosts of Traumatic Cultural Memory: Haunting, Posthumanism, and Animism in Daniel Black’s The Sacred Place and Bernice L. McFadden’s Gathering of Waters
Pekka Kilpeläinen
twelve
Africa in Horror Cinema: A Critical Survey
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio Juvé
Part V
“In the Wake”: Racial Mourning and Memorialization
thirteen
Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton
Kajsa K. Henry
fourteen
Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N*ggers and Dark Villains: Walking with the Ghosts That Ain’t Gone
McKinley E. Melton
fifteen
Mourning Trayvon Martin: Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Emily Ruth Rutter
Coda: Post Vitam Amicitiae, or the Afterlife of a Friendship
Mae G. Henderson
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Recenzii
"The Specter and the Speculative: Archive and the Afterlife in the African Diaspora asks: how do we reenact the violence in the archive through our processes of memorialization and representation? And, more crucially, how do we stop? An important volume at a crucial time."
Descriere
The Specter and the Speculative examines how historical subjects and texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized. The essays, by emergent and established scholars, explore how “living” archives circulate and haunt the popular imagination, engendering afterlives and liberating prior narratives from their original context.