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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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.
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.
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