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Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic IN political instabilityIn Afro Atlantic Flight Michelle D. Commander traces how post civil rights Black American artists, intellectuals, and travelers envision literal and figurative flight back to Africa as a means by which to heal the dispossession caused by the slave trade. Through ethnographic, historical, literary, and filmic analyses, Commander shows the ways that cultural producers such as Octavia Butler, Thomas Allen Harris, and Saidiya Hartman engage with