The Ghost Begins by Coming Back. Revenants And Returns In Maud Sulter’s Photomontages

This chapter considers the photomontage work of the artist and writer Maud Sulter (1960-2008), focussing on her series from 1993, Syrcas which explores the cross cultural connections of a child of African heritage growing up in Germany during the Third Reich. The question of the revenant, the figure who returns from the past to call for justice for those in the future, is explored through reading Jacques Derrida's contemporaneous publication, Spectres de Marx.