Description: The Specter and the Speculative examines how historical subjects and texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized. The essays, by emergent and established scholars, explore how "living" archives circulate and haunt the popular imagination, engendering afterlives and liberating prior narratives from their original context.
Review Quotes: "The Specter and the Speculative: Archive and the Afterlife in the African Diaspora asks: how do we reenact the violence in the archive through our processes of memorialization and representation? And, more crucially, how do we stop? An important volume at a crucial time."--Diana Taylor "author of ¡Presente!: The Politics of Presence"