TY  - GEN
AU  - Nehl,Markus
TI  - Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
SN  - 9783839436660
PY  - 2016///0815
CY  - Bielefeld, Germany
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - Slavery
KW  - African Diaspora Studies
KW  - Neo-Slave Narratives
KW  - Race
KW  - Black Feminist Studies
KW  - U.S.A
KW  - Ghana
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Canada
KW  - Jamaica
KW  - Toni Morrison
KW  - Saidiya Hartman
KW  - Lawrence Hill
KW  - Marlon James
KW  - Anti-Black Violence
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - America
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Memory Culture
KW  - American Studies
KW  - White people
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/5c80ef65-aff9-4007-a9e7-3c7aa79b4775/645354.pdf
UR  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30554
ER  -