Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading Between Literature and History

by Wendy W. Walters

Book Overview

Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary context, to examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. In the history of African diaspora literature, black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138377708
• ISBN13: 9781138377707
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"