Transnational Black Dialogues :
Nehl, Markus,
Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century / Markus Nehl. - Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2016] ©2016 - 1 online resource - Postcolonial Studies ; 28 .
Frontmatter -- 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 Slaver y 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 https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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' 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license:
In English.
9783839436660
10.14361/9783839436660 doi
African diaspora in literature.
English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Slavery in literature.
Violence in literature.
African Diaspora Studies.
America.
American Studies.
Anti-Black Violence.
Black Feminist Studies.
Canada.
Cultural Studies.
Ghana.
Jamaica.
Lawrence Hill.
Marlon James.
Memory Culture.
Neo-Slave Narratives.
Postcolonialism.
Race.
Saidiya Hartman.
South Africa.
Toni Morrison.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.,Ghana.
Yvette Christiansë.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
PR488.S53 / N44 2016
809/.93355
Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century / Markus Nehl. - Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2016] ©2016 - 1 online resource - Postcolonial Studies ; 28 .
Frontmatter -- 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 Slaver y 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 https://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
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' 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license:
In English.
9783839436660
10.14361/9783839436660 doi
African diaspora in literature.
English literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
English literature--History and criticism.--21st century
Slavery in literature.
Violence in literature.
African Diaspora Studies.
America.
American Studies.
Anti-Black Violence.
Black Feminist Studies.
Canada.
Cultural Studies.
Ghana.
Jamaica.
Lawrence Hill.
Marlon James.
Memory Culture.
Neo-Slave Narratives.
Postcolonialism.
Race.
Saidiya Hartman.
South Africa.
Toni Morrison.
U.S.A.
U.S.A.,Ghana.
Yvette Christiansë.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.
PR488.S53 / N44 2016
809/.93355