{"product_id":"living-cargo-how-black-britain-performs-its-past-hardback-9780816697144","title":"Living Cargo; How Black Britain Performs Its Past (Hardback) 9780816697144","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLiving Cargo\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHow Black Britain Performs Its Past\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSteven Blevins (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816697144\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 October 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 45\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 5.1 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLiving Cargo\u003c\/i\u003e is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew.\"-Shane Vogel, Indiana University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, \u003ci\u003eLiving Cargo\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory.\"-Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, \u003ci\u003eLiving Cargo \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade in order to reimagine blackness in British history and to make claims for social and political redress. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSteven Blevins calls this reimagining “unhousing history”-an aesthetic and political practice that animates and improvises on the institutional archive, repurposing it toward different ends and new possibilities. He discusses the work of novelists, including Caryl Phillips, Fred D’Aguiar, David Dabydeen, and Bernardine Evaristo; filmmakers Isaac Julien and Inge Blackman; performance poet Dorothea Smartt; fashion designer Ozwald Boateng; artists Hew Locke and Yinka Shonibare; and the urban redevelopment of Bristol, England, which unfolded alongside the public demand to remember the city’s slave-trading past. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiving Cargo \u003c\/i\u003eargues that the colonial archive is neither static nor residual but emergent. By reassembling historical fragments and traces consolidated in the archive, these artists not only perform a kind of counter-historiography, they also imagine future worlds that might offer amends for the atrocities of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. History Unhoused: Performing the Life of Human Bio-Cargo\u003cbr\u003e Part I. History and Human Cargo\u003cbr\u003e 1. Beautiful Remnants, Brutal Remains: Dwelling on the Melancholy Archive\u003cbr\u003e 2. Living Rough: The Disposition and Dispensation of Aleatory Life\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Assembling Human Bio-Cargo\u003cbr\u003e 3. Compound Fractures: Archival Constellations, Narrative Violations\u003cbr\u003e 4. Blood Pressures: Queer Inheritance and Intimate Affiliations\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Exorbitant Life in an Age of Austerity\u003cbr\u003e 5. Bespoke History: Redressing the Past, Tailoring the Present, Fashioning the Future\u003cbr\u003e 6. @Bristol: Dissident Publics in a Neoliberal City\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570086080792,"sku":"9780816697144","price":64.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/living-cargo-how-black-britain-performs-its-past-hardback-9780816697144","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}