Afro Atlantic Flight Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic 1st Edition by Michelle D Commander ISBN 0822363119 9780822363231

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ISBN 10: 0822363119

ISBN 13: 9780822363231 

Author:  Michelle D. Commander 

 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 thought about slavery, the spiritual realm, and Africa, thereby structuring the imaginary that propels future return flights.  She goes on to examine Black Americans’ cultural heritage tourism in and migration to Ghana; Bahia, Brazil; and various sites of slavery in the US South to interrogate the ways that a cadre of actors produces “Africa” and contests master narratives. Compellingly, these material flights do not always satisfy Black Americans’ individualistic desires for homecoming and liberation, leading Commander to focus on the revolutionary possibilities inherent in psychic speculative returns and to argue for the development of a Pan-Africanist stance that works to more effectively address the contemporary resonances of slavery that exist across the Afro-Atlantic.

Table of contents:

 Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Fantastic Flights: The Search for Ancestral Traces in Black Speculative Narratives
Chapter 2. The Production of Homeland Returns: Misrecognitions and the Unsteady Path toward the Black Fantastic in Ghana
Chapter 3. “We Love to Be Africans”: Saudade and Affective Performances in Bahia, Brazil
Chapter 4. Crafting Symbolic Africas in a Geography of Silence: Return Travels to and the Renarrativization of the U.S. South
Conclusion. “Say Me My Name”: Genetic Science and Emerging Speculative Technologies in the Construction of Afro-Atlantic Reconciliatory Projects
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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