Transnational Black Dialogues: Re-Imagining Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Published 07/2016 at transcript Verlag (Find more information here).

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 Christiansë’s Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes and Marlon James’s 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.

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  2016	PhD, Graduate School Practices of Literature, University of Münster
  2013 – 2016	PhD scholarship by the Cusanuswerk
  2013 - 2013	Lecturer, English Department, University of Münster
  2011 - 2013	Postgraduate Research Assistant, Department of Education Studies, University of Münster
  2010	First State Examination in German and English, University of Münster
  2010 - 2011	Student/ Postgraduate Research Assistant, English Department, University of Münster
  2007 - 2008	Undergraduate Student and German Studies Language Fellow at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY, USA)
  2005 - 2010	Studies in German and English, University of Münster