1st Edition
Archives of the Black Atlantic Reading Between Literature and History
Introduction: Black Historical Literature and the Archive Part I: Diaries, Letters, and Scrapbooks: Archives of the Everyday 1. Fiction and Documents: Patricia Powell’s The Pagoda 2. Archives of Anthropology and Psychoanalysis: V.Y. Mudimbe’s The Rift 3. Prison or Paradise? Archiving the Black American West in Toni Morrison’s Paradise Part II: Reading Rebellion: The Archives of the Slave Trade 4. Elizabeth Alexander’s "Amistad": Reading the Black History Poem through the Archive 5. "Object Into Subject": Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, and The Slaveship 6. The Spectral Ledger: Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts 7. Reading the Archive, Looking for Bones Epilogue: Toward an Aspirational Archive
Biography
Wendy W. Walters is Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, US.
"Walters’ rigorous readings between literature, socio-political history, and legal documents convincingly demonstrate that Afro-diasporic literary expression can contest the archival over-determination of Black subjects through histories of racism and colonial violence, and alter our understanding of socio-political worlds." - Ania Kowalik, Emory University, Archive Journal
