What might it mean to “remember” something that is not of one’s own direct experience? To remember someone else’s memories?
Looking at texts including Jean Toomer’s Cane, Octavia Butler’s Kindred, James Baldwin’s Another Country, and Bob Kaufman’s poetry, Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture describes phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as central to modern African American literature and culture.
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