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

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

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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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Eckstein, Lars,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • PART I
  • LITERARY MEMORY
  • 1 Towards a Poetics of Mnemonic Strategy in Narrative Texts
  • Testimonies: recourse to mental mnemonic resources
  • Interlude: the testimony of Olaudah Equiano
  • Palimpsests: recourse to manifest mnemonic resources
  • PART II
  • MNEMONIC FICTIONS OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC
  • 2 Caryl Phillips, Cambridge
  • The poetics of memory: the art of montage
  • The politics of memory: empowering culture
  • 3 David Dabydeen, A Harlot's Progress
  • The poetics of memory: the art of ekphrasis
  • The politics of memory: empowering the individual
  • 4 Toni Morrison, Beloved
  • The poetics of memory: the art of musicalization
  • The politics of memory: empowering the collective
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix: Source Passages Adapted in Cambridge
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements.

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