Suicide Archive

Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.

• Preface  ixIntroduction. In Articulo Mortis  11. Choral Histories: Suicide and Slavery in the French Atlantic  392. Oral Archives: The “Talaatay Nder” Narrative in Wolof and French  773. Screen Memories: Ousmane SembÈne’s Black Girl between Image, Icon, and Archive  1134. Multiple Exposures: Geologies of Suicidal Resistance  1615. Strange Bedfellows: On Suicide Bombing and Literature  201Conclusion. The Suicide Archive: A Social Document  235Acknowledgments  241Notes  243Bibliography  283Index  315

“Stunning. Doyle D. Calhoun’s The Suicide Archive brings together groundbreaking research, meticulous analysis, and, most importantly, a fully human approach to the most delicate of subjects.” - Christopher L. Miller, Frederick Clifford Ford Professor of African American Studies and French, Emeritus, Yale University “The author-investigator skillfully draws the reader into an enthralling narrative, one in which the evidence and traces retrieved during forensic excursions into archives, images, words, and sounds gradually delineate the contours of The Suicide Archive. In doing so, Doyle D. Calhoun’s book offers an alternative historiography and an innovative reading of global literary history while engaging with art history, film, and performance.” - Dominic Thomas, Madeleine L. Letessier Professor of French, University of California, Los Angeles