The Suicide Archive - Doyle D. Calhoun

The Suicide Archive

Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-3074-4 (ISBN)
28,65 inkl. MwSt
Doyle D. Calhoun charts a long history of suicidal resistance to French colonialism and postcolonialism through African and Afro-Caribbean literature, film, and oral histories.
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.

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

Preface  ix
Introduction. In Articulo Mortis  1
1. Choral Histories: Suicide and Slavery in the French Atlantic  39
2. Oral Archives: The “Talaatay Nder” Narrative in Wolof and French  77
3. Screen Memories: Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl between Image, Icon, and Archive  113
4. Multiple Exposures: Geologies of Suicidal Resistance  161
5. Strange Bedfellows: On Suicide Bombing and Literature  201
Conclusion. The Suicide Archive: A Social Document  235
Acknowledgments  241
Notes  243
Bibliography  283
Index  315

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 33 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-4780-3074-7 / 1478030747
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-3074-4 / 9781478030744
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