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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«, Lawrence Hill’s »The Bo...
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oapen-20.500.12657-305542024-03-25T09:51:37Z Transnational Black Dialogues Nehl, Markus 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 thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTR National liberation and independence 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. 2018-02-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:32 2020-04-01T13:01:09Z 2020-04-01T13:01:09Z 2016-08-15 book 645354 OCN: 960706700 9783839436660 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30554 eng Postcolonial Studies application/pdf n/a 645354.pdf transcript Verlag 101257 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839436660 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bielefeld, Germany 101257 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access |
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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«, 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. |
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