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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nehl, Markus
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bielefeld, GERMANY : Transcript Verlag, 2016.
Series:	Postcolonial studies ; Bd. 28.
Subjects:	2000-2099 Slavery in literature. African diaspora in literature. Violence in literature. English literature > Black authors > History and criticism. English literature > 21st century > History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. History. History: specific events and topics. Humanities. National liberation and independence, post-colonialism. English literature. English literature > Black authors. Electronic books. Case studies. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.