Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Fantastic Flights: the Search of Ancestral Traces in Black Speculative
Narratives 25
2. The Production of Homeland Returns: Misrecognitions and the Unsteady
Path toward the Black Fantastic in Ghana 75
3. "We Love to be Africans": Saudade and Affective Performance in Bahia,
Brazil 123
4. Crafting Symbolic Africas in a Geography of Silence: Return Travels to
and the Renarrativization of the U.S. South 173
Conclusion. "Say Me My Name": Genetic Science and the Emerging Speculative
Technologies in the Construction of Afro-Atlantic Reconciliatory Projects
221
Notes 235
Bibliography 253
Index 269
