Re-membering the Black Atlantic : on the poetics and politics of literary memory /
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...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés Alemán |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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Collection: | Cross/cultures ;
84. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.