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Postcolonial slavery : an overview of colonialism's legacy /
This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law bannin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : postcolonial slavery / Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn
- Part I: (Mis- )representations ; The expositions coloniales : a visual enslavement of the colonial other? / Kathryn Dale
- Imagining "freedom" : the rhetoric of slavery in French-language writing about the Indian mutinies / Nicki Frith
- Part II: Breaking silences, re-writing history ; Transforming the silences of the past : the writing of "l'histoire à faire" in French Caribbean literature / Aurélie L'Hostis
- Slavery in the literature of Madagascar : the case of Raharimanana / Claire Riffard
- (Re)writing 20th century slavery : Michelle Maillet's "L'Étoile noire" / Christina Oppel
- Part III: Postcolonial slavery ; Capitalism and slavery in Kateb Yacine and Tahar Ben Jelloun / Stephanie Decouvelaere
- A comparative analysis of Jean-Robert Cadet's "Restavec : From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American" (1998) & Henriette Akofa's "Une esclave modern" (2000) / Sadie Skinner
- Enslaved minds : the complexity of living in ex-île for Martinican women / Jennifer Jahn
- Afterword : slavery in global contexts / Dominic Thomas.