Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, Gene Melton, Diana Arterian, Christopher Giroux

Broschiertes Buch

The Specter and the Speculative

Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

Herausgeber: Henderson, Mae G; Melton, Gene; Scheper, Jeanne

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 180mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781978834064
• ISBN-10: 1978834063
• Artikelnr.: 69201005