| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 289 pages) : illustrations |
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Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; 84 |
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Cross/cultures ; 84. 0924-1426
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| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-289) |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Phillips, Caryl -- Criticism and interpretation
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Dabydeen, David -- Criticism and interpretation
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Morrison, Toni -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Dabydeen, David fast |
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Morrison, Toni fast |
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Phillips, Caryl fast |
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English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature -- Black authors
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1423789113 |
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9781423789116 |
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9789401202763 |
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9401202761 |
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