Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
Nehl, Markus
Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20160815
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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 slaverys archive.
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9783839436660
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
Literature Slavery African Diaspora Studies Neo-Slave Narratives Race Black Feminist Studies U.S.A. Ghana South Africa Canada Jamaica Toni Morrison Saidiya Hartman Lawrence Hill Marlon James Anti-Black Violence Postcolonialism America Cultural Studies Memory Culture American Studies White people
Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20160815
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' »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 slaverys archive.
Creative Commons
English
9783839436660
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
Literature Slavery African Diaspora Studies Neo-Slave Narratives Race Black Feminist Studies U.S.A. Ghana South Africa Canada Jamaica Toni Morrison Saidiya Hartman Lawrence Hill Marlon James Anti-Black Violence Postcolonialism America Cultural Studies Memory Culture American Studies White people