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Author:

Chassot, Joanne, author.

Title:

Ghosts of the African diaspora : re-visioning history, memory, and identity / Joanne Chassot.

Publisher:

Dartmouth College Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 247 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Ghosts in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Collective memory in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African Americans in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Collective memory in literature.
Ghosts in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: tracing the ghost -- "Voyage through death to life upon these shores": Representing the Middle Passage -- Dusky Sallys: re-visioning the silences of history -- "You best remember them!": repossessing the spirit of diaspora -- "A ghost-life": queering the limits of identity -- Afterword: learning to live with ghosts.

Series:

Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies

ISBN:

1512601608
9781512601602
1512601586
9781512601589

OCLC:

(OCoLC)982090725

LCCN:

2017038410

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)