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: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English German |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2006.
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| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
84. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289). |
| ISBN: | 1423789113 9781423789116 9789401202763 9401202761 |
| ISSN: | 0924-1426 ; |
