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OverviewLiving Cargoexamines contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writersand artists in the U.K. who maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and theCaribbean. It explores how contemporary black British culture makers haveengaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slavetrade to reimagine blackness in British history and make claims for social andpolitical redress. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steven BlevinsPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780816697168ISBN 10: 0816697167 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 15 October 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsContents Introduction. History Unhoused: Performing the Life of Human Bio-Cargo Part I. History and Human Cargo 1. Beautiful Remnants, Brutal Remains: Dwelling on the Melancholy Archive 2. Living Rough: The Disposition and Dispensation of Aleatory Life Part II. Assembling Human Bio-Cargo 3. Compound Fractures: Archival Constellations, Narrative Violations 4. Blood Pressures: Queer Inheritance and Intimate Affiliations Part III. Exorbitant Life in an Age of Austerity 5. Bespoke History: Redressing the Past, Tailoring the Present, Fashioning the Future 6. @Bristol: Dissident Publics in a Neoliberal City Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsLiving Cargo is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew. --Shane Vogel, Indiana University Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, Living Cargo is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory. --Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University Living Cargo is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew. Shane Vogel, Indiana University Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, Living Cargo is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory. Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University <i>Living Cargo</i> is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew. Shane Vogel, Indiana University</p> Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, <i>Living Cargo</i> is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory. Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University</p> Author InformationSteven R. Blevins is a writer and teacher living in northern California. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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