Afrodiasporic Forms : Slavery in Literature and Culture of the African Diaspora /

"In Afrodiasporic Forms, Raquel Kennon provides an interdisciplinary, transnational literary and cultural study of modern racialized slavery. Blending close readings with cultural criticism that focuses on products of slavery's afterlife-poetry, prose, plays, painting, telenovelas, sculptu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kennon, Raquel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery in mass media.
Slavery in literature.
Literature > Black authors.
African diaspora.
Literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. "Traveling Through Fog": Slavery's Memorial Expressions in the Black World
  • "White Skin, Black Slavery": Bernardo Guimaräes's A Escrava Isaura and the Global Telenovela
  • Subtle Resistance: On Sugar and the Mammy Figure in Kara Walker's A Subtlety and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
  • "Black Flesh After Flame": Lynching, Resistance, and the Legacy of Slavery in the Poetry of Jean Toomer and Robert Hayden
  • Os Laços de Lembrança e Esquecimento: Reading Pelourinho, Castro Alves's "O navio negreiro," Carolina Maria de Jesus's Quarto de despejo, and Other Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature
  • Azúcar, (Auto)biografía, and Absence: Juan Francisco Manzano, Esteban Montejo, and the Cuban Poetics of Slavery
  • Epilogue. A Gate of Return: Toward an Infinite Sum of Afrodiasporic Forms.

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