Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic

by Michelle D. Commander

Book Overview

In Afro-Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post-civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas Allen Harris, and Saidiya Hartman engage with speculative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363232
• ISBN13: 9780822363231
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"