Nehl Transnational Black Dialogues

Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8394-3666-0
Verlag: transcript
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm

Reihe: Postcolonial Studies

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 slavery's archive.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nehl, Markus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei

Über Autor(innen)

Nehl, Markus
Markus Nehl received his PhD from the Graduate School 'Practices of Literature' at the University of Münster. His research interests include African American, Black Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies.

Markus Nehl received his PhD from the Graduate School 'Practices of Literature' at the University of Münster. His research interests include African American, Black Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies.