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

Published Bielefeld, GERMANY : Transcript Verlag, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (213) Series Postcolonial studies ; volume 28 Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 28. Contents 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 Summary 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 Hill's The Book of Negroes and Marlon James's The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re- )appropriating slavery's archive Analysis 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212) Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode In English Print version record Subject Slavery in literature. African diaspora in literature. Violence in literature. English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism History. History: specific events and topics. Humanities. National liberation and independence, post-colonialism. National liberation & independence, post-colonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. African diaspora in literature English literature English literature -- Black authors Slavery in literature Violence in literature Genre/Form Case studies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book ISBN 3839436664 9783839436660 9783837636666 3837636666

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