Immaterial archives an African diaspora poetics of loss
Introduction: the shape of immateriality -- Silence: the archive and affective memory -- The invisible: Haitian art and a vodou archive of slavery -- Word holes: spirit voices in the recording machine -- Dreamstories: the virtuality of archival recovery -- Afterlife.
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Evanston, Illinois
Northwestern University Press
2020
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: the shape of immateriality -- Silence: the archive and affective memory -- The invisible: Haitian art and a vodou archive of slavery -- Word holes: spirit voices in the recording machine -- Dreamstories: the virtuality of archival recovery -- Afterlife. "'Immaterial Archives' addresses the absence of documentary evidence concerning the lives of black people who were immaterial to the archiving process. Unlike other literary studies, it does not present black Atlantic art and literature as an alternative archive. The creative works of this study embrace silence, fragments, and the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams for confronting loss with forms indebted to the inventiveness with which slaves remade their shattered world. Afro-Caribbean poets M. NourbeSe Philip and Kamau Brathwaite, artists Frantz Zéphirin and Edouard Duval-Carrié, and fiction writers Erna Brodber and George Lamming break the categories defining archival knowledge and their accompanying descriptions of "the human." "Immaterial" refers to the degraded status of black vernacular culture within colonial archives, as well as the diminished status of the humanities in today's information-based society. The term is also gendered as the book tracks a female gendering and re-gendering of the elusive, silent, and invisible spaces of immateriality. "Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss" should be of interest to scholars and students of black cultural studies, Caribbean studies, feminist studies, postcolonial studies, and anyone who is interested in the transformative powers of the imagination"--Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 173-189 |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 199 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780810141575 978-0-8101-4157-5 9780810141582 978-0-8101-4158-2 9780810141599 978-0-8101-4159-9 |