Haunting Capital
Memory, Text and the Black Diasporic Body
Hershini Young

Dartmouth College Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments • 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’s 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
• Index




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