Transnational Black Dialogues
Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction: Slavery - An "Unmentionable" Past?
Seiten 9 - 38 -
1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference
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2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008)
Seiten 55 - 78 -
3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother (2007)
Seiten 79 - 108 -
4. "Hertseer:" Re-Imagining Cape Slaver y in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006)
Seiten 109 - 134 -
5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007)
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6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009)
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Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and "the Incomplete Project of Freedom"
Seiten 191 - 196 -
Works Cited
Seiten 197 - 212
15. August 2016, 212 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-3666-0
Dateigröße: 1.6 MB