The Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire - Couverture souple

Calhoun, Doyle D.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1478030747 ISBN 13 : 9781478030744

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Throughout the French empire, from the Atlantic and the Caribbean to West and North Africa, men, women, and children responded to enslavement, colonization, and oppression through acts of suicide. In The Suicide Archive, Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and neocolonialism, from the time of slavery to the Algerian War for Independence to the "Arab Spring." Noting that suicide was either obscured in or occluded from French colonial archives, Calhoun turns to literature and film to show how aesthetic forms and narrative accounts can keep alive the silenced histories of suicide as a political language. Drawing on scientific texts, police files, and legal proceedings alongside contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean novels, film, and Senegalese oral history, Calhoun outlines how such aesthetic works rewrite histories of resistance and loss. Consequently, Calhoun offers a new way of writing about suicide, slavery, and coloniality in relation to literary history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1478030747
• ISBN 13: 9781478030744
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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