Introduction
Mae G. Henderson, Jeanne Scheper, and Gene Melton
Part I
Watery Unrest: Trauma and Diaspora
one
Relayed Trauma and the Spectral Oceanic Archive in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
Diana Arterian
two
"STEP IN STEP IN / HUR-RY! HUR-RY!":
Diaspora, Trauma, and "Rep & Rev" in Suzan-Lori Parks's Venus
Christopher Giroux
three
Yoruba Visions of the Afterlife in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata
Stella Setka
Part II
Raising the Dead: Black Sonic Imaginaries
four
The Sonic Afterlives of Hester's Scream: The Reverberating Aesthetic of Black Women's Pain in the Black Nationalist Imagination from Slavery to Black Lives Matter
Meina Yates-Richard
five
Mumia Abu-Jamal and Harriet Jacobs: Sound, Spectrality, and the Counternarrative
Luis Omar Ceniceros
six
Forbidding Mourning: Disrupted Sites of Memory and the Tupac Shakur Hologram
Danielle Fuentes Morgan
Part III
Spectral Technologies of Hip-Hop
seven
The Afterlife in Audio, Apparel, and Art: Hip-Hop, Mourning, and the Posthumous
Shamika Ann Mitchell
eight
Dreaming of Life After Death When You're Ready to Die: Notorious B.I.G. and the Sonic Potentialities of Black Afterlife
Andrew R. Belton
nine
"We Ain't Even Really Rappin', We Just Letting Our Dead Homies Tell Stories for Us": Kendrick Lamar, Radical Popular Hip-Hop, and the Specters of Slavery and Its Afterlife 169
Kim White
Part IV
The Posthumous and the Posthuman
ten
DNA as Cultural Memory: Posthumanism in Octavia Butler's Fledgling and Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix
Sheila Smith McKoy
eleven
Ghosts of Traumatic Cultural Memory: Haunting, Posthumanism, and Animism in Daniel Black's The Sacred Place and Bernice L. McFadden's Gathering of Waters
Pekka KilpelÄinen
twelve
Africa in Horror Cinema: A Critical Survey
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Emiliano Aguilar, and Juan Ignacio JuvÉ
Part V
"In the Wake": Racial Mourning and Memorialization
thirteen
Mapping Loss as Performative Research in Ralph Lemon's Come home Charley Patton
Kajsa K. Henry
fourteen
Remembering and Resurrecting Bad N*ggers and Dark Villains: Walking with the Ghosts That Ain't Gone
McKinley E. Melton
fifteen
Mourning Trayvon Martin: Elegiac Responsibility in Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric
Emily Ruth Rutter
Coda: Post Vitam Amicitiae, or the Afterlife of a Friendship
Mae G. Henderson
Acknowledgments
Selected Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
