In this Book
- Immaterial Archives: An African Diaspora Poetics of Loss
- Book
- 2020
- Published by: Northwestern University Press
- Series: FlashPoints
summary
In this innovative study, Jenny Sharpe moves beyond the idea of art and literature as an alternative archive to the historical records of slavery and its aftermath. Immaterial Archives explores instead the intangible phenomena of affects, spirits, and dreams that Caribbean artists and writers introduce into existing archives. Through the works of Frantz Zéphirin, Edouard Duval-Carrié, M. NourbeSe Philip, Erna Brodber, and Kamau Brathwaite, Immaterial Archives examines silences as black female spaces, Afro-Creole sacred worlds as diasporic cartographies, and the imaginative conjoining of spirits with industrial technologies as disruptions of enlightened modernity.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780810141599
Related ISBN(s)
9780810141575, 9780810141582
MARC Record
OCLC
1137740075
Pages
214
Launched on MUSE
2020-01-30
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2020