Ghosts, hauntings, and poltergeists

Ghosts of the African Diaspora

Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity

by Joanne Chassot

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21st century
Language: English

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The first monograph to investigate the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature, Ghosts of the African Diaspora: Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity examines literary works by five contemporary writers—Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Joanne Chassot argues that reading these texts through the lens of the ghost does cultural, theoretical, and political work crucial to the writers’ engagement with issues of identity, memory, and history. Drawing on memory and trauma studies, postcolonial studies, and queer theory, this truly interdisciplinary volume makes an important contribution to the fast-growing field of spectrality studies.

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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Re-Visioning History, Memory, and Identity Directory of Open Access Books edition Hanover, NH USA	2018-01-02	Dartmouth College Press	English	9781512601589 9781512601824	Open access	Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab) OAPEN Library (opens in a new tab)