Casteel Black Lives Under Nazism

Making History Visible in Literature and Art
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-231-55914-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future

This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Casteel, Sarah Phillips

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Invisible and Invented Archives
Part I: Documenting the Past: The Artist as Witness
Introduction to Part I
1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi Germany
2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor Michael, and John William
Part II: Imagining the Past: The Artist as Historian
Introduction to Part II
3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan
4. Performing to Survive: “Queen of the Trumpet” Valaida Snow in Fiction, Drama, and Graphic Narrative
5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulter’s Alpine Photomontages
Coda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chi’s Durch Gärten Tanzen
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Phillips Casteel is professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies, and a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Academic Council. Her most recent books are Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia, 2016) and the coedited volume Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (2019).