Haunting capital : memory, text and the Black diasporic body / Hershini Bhana Young.

SeriesReencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas
Reencounters with colonialism--new perspectives on the Americas. ^A389969
Contents Introduction : memory, text, body -- Opening heads and reaching shores : reading ghostly desire in Bessie Head's A question of power and Deborah Jack's Shore -- Between a push and a fall : the politics of re-memory in Gayl Jones's Corregidora -- Hungry women : economies of injury in Tsitsi Dangarembga' Nervous conditions -- The wounding of displacement : looking for home in Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon -- Coda : the haunting distance between two places, South Africa and South Carolina.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005019249
ISBN1584655186 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1584655194 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9781584655183
ISBN9781584655190

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