Author Description

Introduction: Black Historical Literature And The Archive -- Fiction And Documents: Patricia Powell's The Pagoda -- Archives Of Anthropology And Psychoanalysis: V.y. Mudimbe's The Rift -- Prison Or Paradise? Archiving The Black American West In Toni Morrison's Paradise -- Elizabeth Alexander's Amistad: Reading The Black History Poem Through The Archive -- Object Into Subject: Michelle Cliff, John Ruskin, And The Slave Ship -- The Spectral Ledger: Fred D'aguiar's Feeding The Ghosts -- Reading The Archive, Looking For Bones -- Epilogue: Toward An Aspirational Archive. Wendy W. Walters. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 159-170) And Index.