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Subject(s)

• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Ghosts in literature [Browse]
• African diaspora in literature [Browse]
• Collective memory in literature [Browse]
• African Americans in literature [Browse]

Series

• Re-mapping the transnational [More in this series]
• Re-mapping the transnational: a Dartmouth series in American studies [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-236) 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.

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ISBN

• 9781512601589 ((cloth : alk. paper))
• 1512601586 ((cloth : alk. paper))
• 9781512601602 ((pbk. : alk. paper))
• 1512601608 ((pbk. : alk. paper))

LCCN

2017038410

OCLC

982090725

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