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.
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.
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).
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Introduction Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton Part I Watery Unrest: Trauma and Diaspora one Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! Diana Arterian two “STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY! HUR-RY!”: Diaspora, Trauma, and “Rep & Rev” in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus Christopher Giroux three Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata Stella Setka Part II Raising the Dead: Black Sonic Imaginaries four The Sonic Afterlives of Hester’s Scream: The Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in the Black Nationalist Imagination from Slavery to Black Lives Matter Meina Yates-Richard five Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs: Sound, Spectrality, and the Counternarrative Luis Omar Ceniceros six Forbidding Mourning: Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram Danielle Fuentes Morgan Part III Spectral Technologies of Hip-Hop seven The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art: Hip-Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous Shamika Ann Mitchell eight Dreaming of Life After Death When You’re Ready to Die: Notorious B.I.G. and the Sonic Potentialities of Black Afterlife Andrew R. Belton nine “We Ain’t Even Really Rappin’, We Just Letting Our Dead Homies Tell Stories for Us”: Kendrick Lamar, Radical Popular Hip-Hop, and the Specters of Slavery and Its Afterlife 169 Kim White Part IV The Posthumous and the Posthuman ten DNA as Cultural Memory: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix Sheila Smith McKoy eleven Ghosts of Traumatic Cultural Memory: Haunting, Posthumanism, and Animism in Daniel Black’s The Sacred Place and Bernice L. McFadden’s Gathering of Waters Pekka Kilpeläinen twelve Africa in Horror Cinema: A Critical Survey Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio Juvé Part V “In the Wake”: Racial Mourning and Memorialization thirteen Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton Kajsa K. Henry fourteen Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N*ggers and Dark Villains: Walking with the Ghosts That Ain’t Gone McKinley E. Melton fifteen Mourning Trayvon Martin: Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric Emily Ruth Rutter Coda: Post Vitam Amicitiae, or the Afterlife of a Friendship Mae G. Henderson Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
Introduction Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton Part I Watery Unrest: Trauma and Diaspora one Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! Diana Arterian two “STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY! HUR-RY!”: Diaspora, Trauma, and “Rep & Rev” in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus Christopher Giroux three Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata Stella Setka Part II Raising the Dead: Black Sonic Imaginaries four The Sonic Afterlives of Hester’s Scream: The Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women’s Pain in the Black Nationalist Imagination from Slavery to Black Lives Matter Meina Yates-Richard five Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs: Sound, Spectrality, and the Counternarrative Luis Omar Ceniceros six Forbidding Mourning: Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram Danielle Fuentes Morgan Part III Spectral Technologies of Hip-Hop seven The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art: Hip-Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous Shamika Ann Mitchell eight Dreaming of Life After Death When You’re Ready to Die: Notorious B.I.G. and the Sonic Potentialities of Black Afterlife Andrew R. Belton nine “We Ain’t Even Really Rappin’, We Just Letting Our Dead Homies Tell Stories for Us”: Kendrick Lamar, Radical Popular Hip-Hop, and the Specters of Slavery and Its Afterlife 169 Kim White Part IV The Posthumous and the Posthuman ten DNA as Cultural Memory: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler’s Fledgling and Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix Sheila Smith McKoy eleven Ghosts of Traumatic Cultural Memory: Haunting, Posthumanism, and Animism in Daniel Black’s The Sacred Place and Bernice L. McFadden’s Gathering of Waters Pekka Kilpeläinen twelve Africa in Horror Cinema: A Critical Survey Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio Juvé Part V “In the Wake”: Racial Mourning and Memorialization thirteen Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton Kajsa K. Henry fourteen Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N*ggers and Dark Villains: Walking with the Ghosts That Ain’t Gone McKinley E. Melton fifteen Mourning Trayvon Martin: Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric Emily Ruth Rutter Coda: Post Vitam Amicitiae, or the Afterlife of a Friendship Mae G. Henderson Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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