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This is an eloquent, erudite, interdisciplinary study of centuries of willed relations that have played from Cape Town to New York in an Africanist archive of performance. --Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of <i>Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play</i>

""Illegible Will is a phenomenal book that adds intellectual and theoretical sophistication to the fields of African studies, African history, and African diaspora studies. It has great potential to contribute to the related fields of labor studies, sociology, literary studies, and the performing arts. The book is powerfully written and well researched and is well grounded in the existing scholarship."" -- Kwaku Nti * Journal of Global South Studies *

This is an eloquent, erudite, interdisciplinary study of centuries of willed relations that have played from Cape Town to New York in an Africanist archive of performance. -- Jennifer DeVere Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play Illegible Will is, in short, a masterpiece. While it is common to find a book able to shed new light on well-worn material, or that engages with a completely new archive, it is exceedingly rare to find a book that does both. This is such a book. Hershini Bhana Young's interdisciplinary approach weaves imaginative literary renderings with historical documents to create a vibrant and capacious vantage point through which to approach coercive performances. A highly imaginative, poetic, and creative approach to the archive, Illegible Will is of tremendous value for those in performance studies, black studies, literature, queer studies, and dance studies. -- Uri McMillan, author of Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance

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Hershini Bhana Young is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, and the author of Haunting Capital: Memory, Text, and the Black Diasporic Body.

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