Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl's provocative readings of Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christianse's Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroesand Marlon James' The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery's archive.

About the Author
Markus Nehl received his PhD from the Graduate School "Practices of Literature" at the University of Munster. His research interests include African American, Black Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies.


Book Information
ISBN 9783837636666
Author Markus Nehl
Format Paperback
Page Count 212
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 2mm