Re-Membering the Black Atlantic : : On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory / / Lars Eckstein.

The Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity betw...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures ; 84
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures ; 84.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
Notes:Based on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Universität Tübingen, 2003, under title: Der 'Black Atlantic' im Gedächtnis der Literatur.
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