Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past

Author:   Steven Blevins
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816697144


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 October 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Living Cargo examines contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists in the U.K. who maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean. It explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade to reimagine blackness in British history and make claims for social and political redress. 

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Author:   Steven Blevins
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780816697144


ISBN 10:   0816697140
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 October 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents 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 Index

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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>


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


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Steven R. Blevins is a writer and teacher living in northern California.

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