Doyle D. Calhoun

The Suicide Archive

Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781478030744
• ISBN-10: 1478030747
• Artikelnr.: 70273068

Autorenporträt

Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Introduction. In Articulo Mortis  1
1. Choral Histories: Suicide and Slavery in the French Atlantic  39
2. Oral Archives: The “Talaatay Nder” Narrative in Wolof and French  77
3. Screen Memories: Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl between Image, Icon, and
Archive  113
4. Multiple Exposures: Geologies of Suicidal Resistance  161
5. Strange Bedfellows: On Suicide Bombing and Literature  201
Conclusion. The Suicide Archive: A Social Document  235
Acknowledgments  241
Notes  243
Bibliography  283
Index  315