TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nehl,Markus
TI  - Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century 
SN  - 9783839436660
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Political science
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/b81405f7-f180-41f9-b0aa-299c00047b91
ER  -