Re-membering the Black Atlantic : on the poetics and politics of literary memory /

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The Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity betw...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eckstein, Lars
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Cross/cultures ; 84.
Subjects:
Phillips, Caryl > Criticism and interpretation.
Dabydeen, David > Criticism and interpretation.
Morrison, Toni > Criticism and interpretation.
Dabydeen, David
Morrison, Toni
Phillips, Caryl
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Black authors
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations; Introduction; PART I : LITERARY MEMORY; 1 Towards a Poetics of Mnemonic Strategy in Narrative Texts; PART II : MNEMONIC FICTIONS OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC; 2 Caryl Phillips, Cambridge; 3 David Dabydeen, A Harlot's Progress; 4 Toni Morrison, Beloved; Conclusion; Appendix: Source Passages Adapted in Cambridge; Bibliography; Acknowledgements.

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