Re-membering the Black Atlantic : on the poetics and politics of literary memory /
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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English German |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
84. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160106 |
| Summary: | 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 between their enlightenment and chattel slavery. Recently, however, fiction writers have ventured to 're-member' the Black Atlantic. This book is concerned with how literature performs as memory. It sets out to chart systematically the ways in which literature and memory intersect, and offers readings of. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289). |
| ISBN: | 1423789113 9781423789116 9789401202763 9401202761 9042019581 9789042019584 |
| ISSN: | 0924-1426 ; |