Description
About the Author
Michelle D. Commander is Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee.
Reviews
"Afro-Atlantic Flight is instructive and deserves a spot among the growing wave of Black geographies literature." -- Bradley Hinger * Antipode *
"Commander has written a book that offers hope and optimism to Black Americans by reclaiming old wounds that surface in the contemporary moment with an alarming regularity, violent maliciousness, and/or callous indifference. With little doubt, she has made important methodological, theoretical, and political contributions to the disciplines of literary studies, American studies, performance studies, diaspora studies, cultural anthropology, and geography." -- R. Scott Carey * Journal of Critical Race Inquiry *
"Wide-ranging and dynamic. Afro-Atlantic Flight makes a valuable contribution to a number of fields that take up subjects such as the contemporary politics of black American belonging, travel, and speculative narrative traditions in black expressive culture." -- Stacie Selmon Mccormick * Studies in the Novel *
"Afro-Atlantic Flight successfully situates the fantastic and the speculative as longstanding modalities for black survival, resistance, and solidarity. . . . Commander has produced nuanced interdisciplinary work that sustains argument and methodology throughout." -- Daylanne K. English * American Literary History *
"Afro-Atlantic Flight has an ambitious premise and methodology, combining cultural studies, participant observation, and semistructured interviews. . . . An innovative aspect of the work is how it thinks beyond Africa as the sole site of cultural authenticity desired by African Americans." -- Jocelyn Fenton Stitt * Meridians *
"Afro-Atlantic Flight innovatively examines literature and film that thematize returns to Africa alongside nonliterary phenomena. . . . Commander's nuanced account of how black people deploy imaginings of Africa reclaims the concept of a homeland return as politically fruitful while avoiding the pitfalls of earlier Pan-Africanist movements." -- Gabriella Friedman * American Quarterly *
"Afro-Atlantic Flight is a provocative and fascinating text that will also invite further study even as it engages and answers its own questions in critical and significant ways." -- Susana M. Morris * CLA Journal *
Book Information
ISBN 9780822363231
Author Michelle D. Commander
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Weight(grams) 408g