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Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
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Abstract The author 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 Ne... view more
The author 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.... view less
Keywords
slavery; race; post-colonialism; culture of remembrance; literature
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
African Diaspora Studies; Neo-Slave Narratives; Black Feminist Studies; U.S.A.; Ghana; South Africa; Canada; Jamaica; Anti-Black Violence; America; Cultural Studies; Memory Culture; American Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
212 p.
Series
Postcolonial Studies, 28
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839436660
ISBN
978-3-8394-3666-0
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0