Portia Owusu

Spectres from the Past

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9780367819897
• ISBN-10: 0367819899
• Artikelnr.: 75488702

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.