Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century.
Nehl, Markus,
Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century. - 1 online resource (213) - Postcolonial studies ; volume 28 . - Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 28. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212).
Cover. Transnational Black Dialogues ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Slavery-An "Unmentionable" Past? ; 1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference ; 2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008). 3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother (2007) 4. "Hertseer:" Re-Imagining Cape Slavery in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006) ; 5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007). 6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and "the Incomplete Project of Freedom" ; Works Cited.
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Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes and Marlon James's The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re- )appropriating slavery's archive.
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Slavery in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Violence in literature.
English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
African diaspora in literature.
English literature.
English literature--Black authors.
Slavery in literature.
Violence in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Case studies.
PN56.S5765
810.93552
Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century. - 1 online resource (213) - Postcolonial studies ; volume 28 . - Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 28. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212).
Cover. Transnational Black Dialogues ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Slavery-An "Unmentionable" Past? ; 1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference ; 2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008). 3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother (2007) 4. "Hertseer:" Re-Imagining Cape Slavery in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006) ; 5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007). 6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and "the Incomplete Project of Freedom" ; Works Cited.
Open Access
Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes and Marlon James's The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re- )appropriating slavery's archive.
3839436664 9783839436660 9783837636666 3837636666
951233 MIL 101257 Knowledge Unlatched
2000-2099
Slavery in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Violence in literature.
English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
African diaspora in literature.
English literature.
English literature--Black authors.
Slavery in literature.
Violence in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Case studies.
PN56.S5765
810.93552