Ghosts from the Abyss: the imagination of new worlds in the sea-narratives of Afrofuturism

This contribution aims to investigate a different ghostscape, shaped by the turbulent materiality of the sea: the abyss. A space of trauma and simultaneously of becoming, it is populated by spectral ob- jects, traces, fragments, and, above all, ghosts. Édouard Glissant,1 a major thinker of the aby...

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Main Author: Gabriella Palermo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: professionaldreamers 2022-07-01
Series:lo Squaderno
Online Access:http://www.losquaderno.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/losquaderno62.pdf#page=39