Description: Suicide Archive : Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire, Hardcover by Calhoun, Doyle D., ISBN 1478026502, ISBN-13 9781478026501, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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.
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Book Title: Suicide Archive : Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Suicide Archive : Reading Resistance in the Wake of French Empire
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Subject: Comparative Literature, Social History, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.8 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Doyle D. Calhoun
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
