Jeanne Scheper

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The Specter and the Speculative

Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton

Rutgers University Press

The Specter and the Speculative examines how historical subjects and texts within the African Diaspora are re-fashioned, re-animated, and re-articulated, as well as parodied, nostalgized, and defamiliarized. The essays, by emergent and established scholars, explore how “living” archives circulate and haunt the popular imagination, engendering afterlives and liberating prior narratives from their original context.

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Moving Performances

Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage

By Jeanne Scheper

Rutgers University Press

Offering innovative theorizations of performance, reception, and affect, Moving Performances introduces readers to four remarkable divas from the early twentieth century—Aida Overton Walker, Loïe Fuller, Libby Holman, and Josephine Baker—who worked as both cultural producers and critics, deftly subverting the tropes of exoticism, orientalism, and primitivism commonly used to dismiss women of color. Scheper rejects iconic depictions of these divas as frozen in a past moment, and vividly demonstrates how their performances continue to inspire ongoing movements.

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The Specter and the Speculative

Afterlives and Archives in the African Diaspora

Edited by Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton

Rutgers University Press

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