Michelle D Commander

Afro-Atlantic Flight

Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Michelle D. Commander is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822363118
• ISBN-10: 0822363119
• Artikelnr.: 44946313

Autorenporträt

Michelle D. Commander

Inhaltsangabe

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