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03737aam a2200433 i 4500 001 2099528AFE5E11E2B6A414D3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130806010419 008 121219s2013 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012043858 020 $a 0415821517 (hardback) 020 $a 9780415821513 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)810534195 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IG# $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d BWX $d YUS $d MUU $d CHVBK $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS153.N5 $b W337 2013 082 00 $a 810.9/896073 $2 23 100 1 $a Walters, Wendy W. 245 10 $a Archives of the Black Atlantic : $b Reading Between Literature and History / $c Wendy W. Walters. 264 1 $a New York ; $b Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, $c 2013. 300 $a xii, 191 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies ; $v 6 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Black historical literature and the archive -- Fiction and documents: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda -- Archives of anthropology and psychoanalysis: V.Y. Mudimbe's The Rift -- Prison or paradise? archiving the black American West in Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Elizabeth Alexander's "Amistad": reading the black history poem through the archive -- "Object into subject": Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and the slave ship -- The spectral ledger: Fred D'Aguiar's Feeding the Ghosts -- Reading the archive, looking for bones -- Epilogue: Toward an aspirational archive. 520 $a "Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary context, to examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. In the history of African diaspora literature, black writers and intellectuals have led the way for an analysis of the archive, querying dominant archives and revising the ways black people have been represented in the legal and hegemonic discourses of the west. Their work in genres as diverse as autobiography, essay, bibliography, poetry, and the novel attests to the centrality of this critique in black intellectual culture. Through literary engagement with the archives of the slave trader, colonizer, and courtroom, creative writers teach us to read the archives of history anew, probing between the documents for stories left untold, questions left unanswered, and freedoms enacted against all odds. Opening new perspectives on Atlantic history and culture, Walters generates a dialogue between what was and what might have been. Ultimately, Walters argues that references to archival documents in black historical literature introduce a new methodology for studying both the archive and literature itself, engaging in a transnational and interdisciplinary reading that exposes the instability of the archive's truth claim and highlights rebellious possibility."--Publisher's website. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and history $z United States. 650 0 $a African diaspora. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Intellectual life. 650 7 $a Literatur. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Schwarze. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Archiv. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 gnd 830 0 $a Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; $v 6. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220706014455.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126065046.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2099528AFE5E11E2B6A414D3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search