Transnational Black Dialogues : Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century.

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nehl, Markus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, GERMANY : Transcript Verlag, 2016.
Colección:Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 28.
Temas:
2000-2099
Slavery in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Violence in literature.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
English literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
Africains > Pays étrangers, dans la littérature.
Violence dans la littérature.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
History.
History: specific events and topics.
Humanities.
National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
English literature.
English literature > Black authors.
African Diaspora Studies.
America.
American Studies.
Anti-Black Violence.
Black Feminist Studies.
Canada.
Cultural Studies.
Ghana.
Jamaica.
Lawrence Hill.
Marlon James.
Memory Culture.
Neo-Slave Narratives.
Postcolonialism.
Race.
Saidiya Hartman.
South Africa.
Toni Morrison.
U.S.A.
Yvette Christiansë.
Case studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Études de cas.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover. Transnational Black Dialogues ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: Slavery-An "Unmentionable" Past? ; 1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference ; 2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008).
  • 3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother (2007) 4. "Hertseer:" Re-Imagining Cape Slavery in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006) ; 5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007).
  • 6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and "the Incomplete Project of Freedom" ; Works Cited.

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