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  1. Re-membering the Black Atlantic
    on the poetics and politics of literary memory
    Author: Eckstein, Lars
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Rodopi, Amsterdam [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

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    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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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 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1423789113; 9781423789116; 9789401202763; 9401202761
    RVK Categories: HU 1819 ; HP 1125
    Series: Cross/cultures ; 84
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 289 pages), Illustrations
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289)
  2. Re-Membering the Black Atlantic
    On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory
    Author: Eckstein, Lars
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  BRILL, Leiden ; Brill, Boston

    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... more

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    Universität Mainz, Zentralbibliothek
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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 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 three seminal Black Atlantic novels. Each reading illustrates a particular poetic strategy of accessing the past and presents a distinct political outlook on memory. Novelists may choose to write back to texts, images or music: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge brings together numerous fragments of slave narratives, travelogues and histories to shape a brilliant montage of long-forgotten texts. David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress approaches slavery through the gateway of paintings by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Turner. Toni Morrison's Beloved , finally, is steeped in black music, from spirituals and blues to the art of John Coltrane. Beyond differences in poetic strategy, moreover, the novels paradigmatically reveal distinct ideologies: their politics of memory variously promote an encompassing transcultural sense of responsibility, an aestheticist 'creative amnesia', and the need to preserve a collective 'black' identity.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789401202763; 9789042019584
    Other identifier:
    RVK Categories: HU 1819 ; HP 1125
    Series: Cross/Cultures ; 84
    Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index.