The Injunctions of the Spectre of Slavery: Affective Memory and the Counterwriting of Community

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Karavanta,Mina (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2013-06
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Feminist Review
    Journal Title Details:
    104 : 42-60
    ISBN:
    0141-7789
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Literature, Slavery, Communities, Memory, Imoinda, Zong!, Anim-Addo, Joan, Philip, M. NourbeSe, Imoinda: Or She Who Will Lose Her Name (Book), and ZONG! (Book)
    Notes:
    Draws on two Caribbean texts, Anim-Addo's Imoinda: Or She Who will Lose Her Name and Philip's Zong!. Discusses how these two Caribbean texts counterwrite the history of the slave plantation by staging and embodying the work of an affective memory drawn from the history of the black subject as a history of being and community.

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