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In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market ideology, which once justified and facilitated the exponential growth of the slave trade. The motif of unbridled capitalism recurs in all the works discussed herein; however, community, whether racial, political, utopian, or conceptual, emerges as a fitting frame of reference to reveal unsuspected facets of the relationships between all involved parties, and expose the ramifications of the trade across time and space. Ultimately, this book calls for a complete reevaluation of what it means to live together.

Slave trade in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.

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How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery. Topics discussed include a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol; novels by Caryl Phillips and Barry Unsworth; a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; and a revival of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In each case, Wallace reveals how these works and performances illuminate and obscure the history of the slave trade and its legacy. While Wallace focuses on Britain, her work also speaks to questions of how the United States and other nations remember inglorious chapters from their past.

Slave trade --- Public opinion --- Slave trade in literature --- Slavery in literature --- Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Communities - Social Classes --- History --- Slave trade in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- Public opinion. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Enslaved persons in literature --- TRAITE DES ESCLAVES --- OPINION PUBLIQUE --- ESCLAVAGE ET ESCLAVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- GRANDE BRETAGNE --- HISTOIRE --- DANS LA LITTERATURE

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The starting point for this study is the nineteenth-century Caribbean narrative The History of Mary Prince (1831). Simmons puts Prince's narrative in conversation with three twentieth-century novels: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Gloria Naylor's Mama Day, and Maryse Condé's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. She incorporates autobiography theory to shift the critical focus from the object of study--slave histories--to the ways people talk about those histories and to the guiding interests of such discourses. In its reframing of women's migration narratives, Simmons's study unsettles theoretical certainties and disturbs the very notion of a cohesive diaspora.

American literature --- West Indian literature (English) --- African American women in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Slave trade in literature. --- Collective memory in literature. --- Culture in literature. --- African American authors --- History and criticism. --- African American women --- Women authors --- Afro-American women in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- West Indian literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature

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On ne peut qu'être impressionné par le nombre d'œuvres littéraires de fiction qui se rapportent à l'esclavage et au commerce des esclaves, répondant ainsi aux premiers récits d'esclaves publiés aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles. Si les auteurs africains-américains des années soixante et soixante-dix sont maintenant bien connus, toute une nouvelle vague d'écrivains Américains, Africains, Africains-Américains et Caribbéens, poursuivent et renouvèlent, depuis les années quatre-vingt et quatre vingt-dix, cette tradition. Rassemblés autour de l'œuvre d'une vingtaine d'écrivains, des universitaires de renom ouvrent, dans ce recueil, des perspectives nouvelles pour comprendre la nécessité qui poussent écrivains, critiques et lecteurs à relire, réécrire et revisiter cette littérature de l'esclavage encore aujourd'hui. A l'origine de ce recueil se trouve un colloque organisé par le Cerpac « Les avatars contemporains des récits d'esclaves » qui a eu lieu à l'Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III (avril 2003), en présence de Caryl Phillips qui a fait une lecture à partir de A Distant Shore (qui a obtenu le Commonwealth Writers Prize en mai 2004) et Fred D'Aguiar qui a fait l'allocution d'ouverture.

Comparative literature --- Fiction --- Thematology --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Slave trade in literature --- Slavery in literature --- Caribbean literature --- American literature --- African literature (English) --- Criticism and interpretation --- History and criticism --- Caribbean literature - Criticism and interpretation --- American literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- African literature (English) - History and criticism --- Literature --- postcolonial --- récit d’esclave --- littérature Caraïbe --- littérature Africaine-Américaine --- slave narrative --- African-American literature --- ESCLAVES --- ESCLAVAGE ET ESCLAVES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- LITTERATURE AMERICAINE --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- ROMAN ANTILLAIS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- NOIRS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- NOIRS AMERICAINS DANS LA LITTERATURE --- AUTOBIOGRAPHIE (GENRE LITTERAIRE) --- CARAÏBES --- ETATS-UNIS --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- Histoire et critique --- AUTEURS NOIRS AMERICAINS --- CARAIBES

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The trans-Atlantic slave trade and the concomitant enslavement of Africans created an enduring connection between Africa and the scattered communities of peoples of African origins in the Americas and elsewhere. These tragic events of slavery have profoundly influenced the literary imagination, whether in Africa, Europe or the Americas. The authors in this collection explore the ways in which trans-Atlantic constructions of this historical experience find expression in the literary mode. The essays examine the ways that writers and performers have used a variety of literary traditions, including narrative, poetry, myth, legend, autobiography, and drama, as well as song and the cinema, to engage in the construction of imagined yet realistic perceptions of Africa through literary representation.

African diaspora in art --- African diaspora in literature --- African literature (English) --- American literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Slavery in art --- Slavery in literature --- Slave trade in literature --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Slaves in literature --- English literature --- Caribbean literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Black authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- African American authors&delete& --- African authors --- Africa --- In literature. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Black authors --- African American authors --- Enslaved persons in literature --- LITTERATURE AFRICAINE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE DE LANGUE ANGLAISE --- Littérature américaine --- DIASPORA AFRICAINE --- DIASPORA --- AFRICAINS --- Esclavage --- AFRIQUE DANS LA LITTERATURE --- TRAITE DES ESCLAVES --- AUTEURS NOIRS --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- Auteurs noirs américains --- Histoire et critique --- DANS LA LITTERATURE --- A L'ETRANGER --- Dans la littérature --- DANS L'ART