Haunting and Displacement in African American Literature and Culture

Looking at texts including Jean Toomers Cane, Toni Morrisons Beloved, James Baldwins Another Country, and Beat poetry by Bob Kaufmann, in this original study, Parham describes the phenomena of haunting, displacement, and ghostliness as endemic to modern African American literature and culture. Not only does memoryconscious and unconscious, individual and collectiveoften drive African American cultural production, but such memory often arrives to artists from elsewhere, from other times, spaces, and experiences.