Book overview
Reading history through the figure of the ghost.
This interdisciplinary monograph examines the poetics and politics of haunting in African diaspora literature.
Joanne Chassot considers literary works by Fred D’Aguiar, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, Michelle Cliff, and Toni Morrison. Through close attention to memory, trauma, postcolonial thought, and queer theory, the study explores how spectral figures illuminate questions of identity, historical remembrance, and cultural inheritance.
The result is a focused contribution to the study of spectrality and to conversations about how literature revisits histories that continue to shape the present.