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Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century / Markus Nehl.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Postcolonial Studies ; 28Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839436660
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809/.93355 23
LOC classification:
  • PR488.S53 N44 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2016Title is part of eBook package: EBOOK PACKAGE Linguistics 2016Title is part of eBook package: transcript eBook Package English Contemporary 2016-2018Summary: 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.
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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

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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' 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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