Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Living Cargo is an elegant and beautifully imagined book that reactivates archival records and makes them speak anew."—Shane Vogel, Indiana University
"Grounded in rigorous theoretical inquiry, archival research, and sophisticated textual analysis, Living Cargo is a rich and nuanced contribution to black Atlantic studies, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural theory."—Nicole Fleetwood, Rutgers University
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction. History Unhoused: Performing the Life of Human Bio-Cargo
Part I. History and Human Cargo
1. Beautiful Remnants, Brutal Remains: Dwelling on the Melancholy Archive
2. Living Rough: The Disposition and Dispensation of Aleatory Life
Part II. Assembling Human Bio-Cargo
3. Compound Fractures: Archival Constellations, Narrative Violations
4. Blood Pressures: Queer Inheritance and Intimate Affiliations
Part III. Exorbitant Life in an Age of Austerity
5. Bespoke History: Redressing the Past, Tailoring the Present, Fashioning the Future
6. @Bristol: Dissident Publics in a Neoliberal City
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
