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

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«, La...

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Main Author: Nehl, Markus (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2016
Series:Postcolonial Studies
Subjects:
National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
Literature
Slavery
African Diaspora Studies
Neo-Slave Narratives
Race
Black Feminist Studies
U.S.A.
Ghana
South Africa
Canada
Jamaica
Toni Morrison
Saidiya Hartman
Lawrence Hill
Marlon James
Anti-Black Violence
Postcolonialism
America
Cultural Studies
Memory Culture
American Studies
White people
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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' »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 slaverys archive.
ISBN:9783839436660
Access:Open Access

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