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This collection of essays attempts to expand the notion of the «Black Atlantic» beyond its original racial, geographical, linguistic and cultural borders while acknowledging its remarkable ability to disturb established historical truths and to go beyond traditional dichotomies, thereby providing an essential tool for cross-cultural understanding. It is divided into four sections, each of them dealing with a different approach to the question of the «Black Atlantic». «Definitions» touches on the various limitations of Gilroy's original concept. «Readings» focuses on how the «Black Atlantic» can be productively used in readings of certain literary texts. «Practices» shifts towards the practical applications of the concept in order to explore the impact it has had on academic disciplines and examine to what extent it may have altered their epistemology and working procedures. Finally, «Dialogues» engages with the «Black Atlantic» from the perspectives of two creative writers whose work includes transatlantic themes and characters.

Diaspora africaine --- Noirs --- Vie intellectuelle --- Diaspora africaine --- Noirs --- Vie intellectuelle

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This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History.

Sex. --- Culture. --- Motion pictures. --- Literature. --- Feminism. --- Feminist theory. --- Literature—Philosophy. --- Feminism and literature. --- Gender Studies. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Global Film and TV. --- World Literature. --- Feminism and Feminist Theory. --- Feminist Literary Theory. --- Sex role in literature. --- Sex role in popular culture. --- Violence in literature. --- Violence in popular culture. --- Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature. --- Vulnerability (Personality trait) in popular culture. --- Women --- Women in literature. --- Women in popular culture. --- Violence against.

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This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors address concepts such as vulnerability, resilience, precarity and resistance in the Anglophone world through an analysis of memoirs, films, TV series, and crime and literary fiction across India, Ireland, Canada, Australia, the US, and the UK. Chapters explore literary and media displays of precarious conditions to examine whether these are exacerbated when intersecting with gender and ethnic identities, thus resulting in structural forms of vulnerability that generate and justify oppression, as well as forms of individual or collective resistance and/or resilience. Substantial insights are drawn from Animal Studies, Critical Race Studies, Human Rights Studies, Post-Humanism and Postcolonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars in Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Culture, Literature and History.

Sex role in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Violence in popular culture. --- Vulnerability (Personality trait) in literature. --- Women --- Women in literature. --- Women in popular culture. --- Violence against.

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One cannot fail to be impressed by the number of works of fiction relating to slavery and the slave trade, writing back to the original slave narratives of the 18th and 19th centuries. If the African-American authors of the 1960s and 1970s are now well-known, they find an echo in works written more recently in the 1980s and 1990s by American, African, African-American and Caribbean writers. About twenty writers come under the scrutiny of renowned scholars, offering perspectives into what makes it so necessary today for writers, critics and readers alike to revisit, reassess and reappropriate the canonical texts of slavery and post-slavery literature. The specificity of this collection is to focus on neo-slave novels while bringing together African-American and Caribbean authors. 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.

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