| Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century Contributor(s): Nehl, Markus (Author) |
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ISBN: 3837636666 ISBN-13: 9783837636666 Publisher: Transcript Publishing OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Series: Postcolonial Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.15 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the United States, Ghana, South Africa, Canada, and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christians '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. |