Portia Owusu

Spectres from the Past

Slavery and the Politics of "History" in West African and African-American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Spectres from the Past: The "History" of Slavery in West African and African-American Narratives explores slavery in contemporary West African and African-American literature by looking at the politics of history and memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 148
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9781032239637
• ISBN-10: 1032239638
• Artikelnr.: 62953275

Autorenporträt

Portia Owusu is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Texas A&M University. Her research interests include history and memory, cultural philosophy and literature and West African and African-American contemporary narratives. She received her PhD in 2017 in Africana Literature at the SOAS, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Evoking Spectres in History.
Chapter 1: Literary Archaeology: The Uncovering and Recovering of
Historical Memory in Toni Morrison's Beloved.
Chapter 2: Articulating 'Silence': The Language of Death as Memory in Ama
Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost.
Chapter 3: Bloodlines and Blurred lines: Contested Memories and Freedom in
Barbara Chase-Riboud's Sally Hemings.
Chapter 4: The Limitations of 'History': Chika Ezeanya's Re-visioning of
the Early Years of Olaudah Equiano and Slavery in Before We Set Sail.
Chapter 5: Wreckages of History: The Past as Ongoing in Amiri Baraka's
Slave Ship: A Historical Pageant.
Chapter 6: The Magic of 'History' and Contradictions of 'Return' to the
M(other) land in Syl Cheney-Coker's The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar.
Conclusion: Defining Silences.