Living Cargo: How Black Britain Performs Its Past

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Living Cargo examines contemporary literature, film, visual art, and performance by writers and artists in the U.K. who maintain strong ties to postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean. It explores how contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade to reimagine blackness in British history and make claims for social and political redress.

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"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

Author Bio

Steven R. Blevins is a writer and teacher living in northern California.