| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Fantastic flights : the search for ancestral traces in Black speculative narratives -- The production of homeland returns : misrecognitions and the unsteady path toward the Black fantastic in Ghana -- "We love to be Africans" : Saudade and affective performances in Bahia, Brazil -- 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 |
| Summary |
Michelle D. Commander traces how black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa through speculative literature and film and travel to cultural heritage sites as means to create a sense of homecoming, belonging, and connection with their ancestors, spiritual realm, and Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 07, 2017) |
| Subject |
African diaspora.
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Back to Africa movement.
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Blacks -- Brazil.
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Blacks -- United States.
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Heritage tourism.
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Slave trade -- Africa, West.
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African diaspora.
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Back to Africa movement.
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Blacks.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Heritage tourism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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Slave trade.
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Brazil.
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United States.
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West Africa.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016039151 |
| ISBN |
0822373300 |
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9780822373308 |
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