Wendy W Walters

Archives of the Black Atlantic

Reading Between Literature and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reads black historical novels and poetry as an invitation to re-examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. It shows that black historical literature takes us back to the archive, exposing the instability of the archive's truth claim to highlight how it is culturally constructed and open to hermeneutics, suggesting that the references to archival documents in black historical literature introduce a new methodology for studying both the archive and literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9781138377707
• ISBN-10: 1138377708
• Artikelnr.: 55103525

Autorenporträt

Wendy W. Walters is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, US.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Black Historical Literature and the Archive Part I: Diaries,
Letters, and Scrapbooks: Archives of the Everyday 1. Fiction and Documents:
Patricia Powell's The Pagoda 2. Archives of Anthropology and
Psychoanalysis: V.Y. Mudimbe's The Rift 3. Prison or Paradise? Archiving
the Black American West in Toni Morrison's Paradise Part II: Reading
Rebellion: The Archives of the Slave Trade 4. Elizabeth Alexander's
"Amistad": Reading the Black History Poem through the Archive 5. "Object
Into Subject": Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and The Slaveship 6. The
Spectral Ledger: Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts 7. Reading the Archive,
Looking for Bones Epilogue: Toward an Aspirational Archive