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1 online resource (213). |
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Postcolonial studies ; volume 28
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Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 28.
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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). |
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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). |
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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. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-212). |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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African diaspora in literature.
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African diaspora in literature. |
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Violence in literature.
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Violence in literature. |
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English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- Black authors. |
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English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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21st century |
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2000-2099 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Case studies.
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Print version: Nehl, Markus. Transnational black dialogues : re-imagining slavery in the tTwenty-first century. Bielefeld, [Germany] : transcript Verlag, ©2016 212 pages Postcolonial studies ; Volume 28 9783837636666 |
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3839436664 (electronic book) |
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9783839436660 (electronic book) |
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9783837636666 |
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3837636666 |
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