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Afro-Atlantic Flight
Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
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Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2017
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Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa.
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Michelle D. Commander is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.
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“Afro-Atlantic Flight is instructive and deserves a spot among the growing wave of Black geographies literature.”
-- Bradley Hinger Antipode
“Commander has written a book that offers hope and optimism to Black Americans by reclaiming old wounds that surface in the contemporary moment with an alarming regularity, violent maliciousness, and/or callous indifference. With little doubt, she has made important methodological, theoretical, and political contributions to the disciplines of literary studies, American studies, performance studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and geography.”
-- R. Scott Carey Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
“Wide-ranging and dynamic. Afro-Atlantic Flight makes a valuable contribution to a number of fields that take up subjects such as the contemporary politics of black American belonging, travel, and speculative narrative traditions in black expressive culture.”
-- Stacie Selmon Mccormick Studies in the Novel
“Afro-Atlantic Flight successfully situates the fantastic and the speculative as longstanding modalities for black survival, resistance, and solidarity. . . . Commander has produced nuanced interdisciplinary work that sustains argument and methodology throughout.”
-- Daylanne K. English American Literary History
"Afro-Atlantic Flight has an ambitious premise and methodology, combining cultural studies, participant observation, and semistructured interviews. . . . An innovative aspect of the work is how it thinks beyond Africa as the sole site of cultural authenticity desired by African Americans."
-- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt Meridians
"Afro-Atlantic Flight innovatively examines literature and film that thematize returns to Africa alongside nonliterary phenomena. . . . Commander’s nuanced account of how black people deploy imaginings of Africa reclaims the concept of a homeland return as politically fruitful while avoiding the pitfalls of earlier Pan-Africanist movements."
-- Gabriella Friedman American Quarterly
"Afro-Atlantic Flight is a provocative and fascinating text that will also invite further study even as it engages and answers its own questions in critical and significant ways."
-- Susana M. Morris CLA Journal
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 Fantastic Flights: The Search for Ancestral Traces in Black Speculative Narratives
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Chapter 2 The Production of Homeland Returns misrecognitions and the unsteady path toward the black fantastic in Ghana
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Chapter 3 “We Love to Be Africans” saudade and affective performances in Bahia, Brazil
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Chapter 4 Crafting Symbolic Africas in a Geography of Silence return travels to and the renarrativization of the u.s. south
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Conclusion “Say Me My Name” genetic science and emerging speculative technologies in the construction of afro-atlantic reconciliatory projects
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
2. März 2017
eBook ISBN:
9780822373308
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296
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26 illustrations
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9780822373308
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