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Suicide Archive

Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire

Av Doyle D. Calhoun

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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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-10-18
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 635 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 344
  • Förlag: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478026501
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Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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“Stunning. Doyle D. Calhoun’s The Suicide Archive brings together groundbreaking research, meticulous analysis, and, most importantly, a fully human approach to the most delicate of subjects.” - Christopher L. Miller, Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies and French, Emeritus, Yale University “The author-investigator skillfully draws the reader into an enthralling narrative, one in which the evidence and traces retrieved during forensic excursions into archives, images, words, and sounds gradually delineate the contours of The Suicide Archive. In doing so, Doyle D. Calhoun’s book offers an alternative historiography and an innovative reading of global literary history while engaging with art history, film, and performance.” - Dominic Thomas, Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French, University of California, Los Angeles

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