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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Tác giả chính: Eckstein, Lars
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
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Được phát hành: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Loạt:Cross/cultures ; 84.
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  • Illustrations; Introduction; PART I : LITERARY MEMORY; 1 Towards a Poetics of Mnemonic Strategy in Narrative Texts; PART II : MNEMONIC FICTIONS OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC; 2 Caryl Phillips, Cambridge; 3 David Dabydeen, A Harlot's Progress; 4 Toni Morrison, Beloved; Conclusion; Appendix: Source Passages Adapted in Cambridge; Bibliography; Acknowledgements.