Transnational black dialogues : : re-imagining slavery in the twenty-first century / / Markus Nehl.

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
• VerfasserIn: Nehl, Markus
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Postcolonial studies ; Volume 28.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgements 7 Introduction: Slavery - An "Unmentionable" Past? 9 1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference 39 2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison's A Mercy (2008) 55 3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother (2007) 79 4. "Hertseer:" Re-Imagining Cape Slaver y in Yvette Christiansë's Unconfessed (2006) 109 5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007) 135 6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James's The Book of Night Women (2009) 161 Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and "the Incomplete Project of Freedom" 191 Works Cited 197