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

Markus Nehl

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2016

Transnational Black Dialogues

Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Markus Nehl
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

Volume 28 in the series Postcolonial Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839436660

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About this book

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 slavery's archive.

Author / Editor information

Markus Nehl received his PhD from the Graduate School »Practices of Literature« at the University of Münster. His research interests include African American, Black Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies.

Reviews

»An important contribution to the study of this new generation of neo-slave narratives that continues to develop with no end in sight as it engages the history and afterlife of chattel slavery on a transnational level, recasting the African Atlantic at the beginning of a still young century from nuanced postslavery perspectives.«
Paula von Gleich, Amerikastudien, 62/4 (2018)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgements Open Access Download PDF	7
Introduction: Slavery – An “Unmentionable” Past? Open Access Download PDF	9
1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference Open Access Download PDF	39
2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) Open Access Download PDF	55
3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother (2007) Open Access Download PDF	79
4. “Hertseer:” Re-Imagining Cape Slaver y in Yvette Christiansë’s Unconfessed (2006) Open Access Download PDF	109
5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007) Open Access Download PDF	135
6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women (2009) Open Access Download PDF	161
Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and “the Incomplete Project of Freedom” Open Access Download PDF	191
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	197

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 212
Keywords: African Diaspora Studies; Neo-Slave Narratives; Race; Black Feminist Studies; U.S.A.; Ghana; South Africa; Canada; Jamaica; Toni Morrison; Saidiya Hartman; Yvette Christiansë; Lawrence Hill; Marlon James; Anti-Black Violence; Postcolonialism; America; Cultural Studies; Memory Culture; American Studies

eBook

Published: August 27, 2016
ISBN: 9783839436660