Transnational Black Dialogues Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century / Markus Nehl.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Nehl, Markus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Political science.

Genre:

• Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld, Germany : transcript Verlag, 2016.

System Details:

text file

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' »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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

• KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
• BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101257

ISBN:

9783839436660