Offering a wide-ranging study of contemporary literature, film,
visual art, and performance by writers and artists who live and
work in the United Kingdom but also maintain strong ties to
postcolonial Africa and the Caribbean, Living Cargo explores how
contemporary black British culture makers have engaged with the
institutional archives of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade
in order to reimagine blackness in British history and to make
claims for social and political redress. Steven Blevins calls this
reimagining "unhousing history"-an aesthetic and political practice
that animates and improvises on the institutional archive,
repurposing it toward different ends and new possibilities. He
discusses the work of novelists, including Caryl Phillips, Fred
D'Aguiar, David Dabydeen, and Bernardine Evaristo; filmmakers Isaac
Julien and Inge Blackman; performance poet Dorothea Smartt; fashion
designer Ozwald Boateng; artists Hew Locke and Yinka Shonibare; and
the urban redevelopment of Bristol, England, which unfolded
alongside the public demand to remember the city's slave-trading
past. Living Cargo argues that the colonial archive is neither
static nor residual but emergent. By reassembling historical
fragments and traces consolidated in the archive, these artists not
only perform a kind of counter-historiography, they also imagine
future worlds that might offer amends for the atrocities of the
past.
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