Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic Cell Biology ; Biography & Autobiography ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250136369

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250136369

But it soon becomes clear that even a remote idyllic getaway can’t keep out the problems simmering in each of their lives

When his mother abandons him

we are proud to call her our sister

is a vicious

Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic Cell Biology ; Biography & Autobiography ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250136369In Afro Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas Allen Harris, and Saidiya Hartman engage with