Commander Afro-Atlantic Flight

Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7330-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Commander, Michelle D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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