LEADER 04430nam 22006491 450 001 9910777521703321 005 20230828222537.0 010 $a94-012-0276-1 010 $a1-4237-8911-3 024 7 $a10.1163/9789401202763 035 $a(CKB)1000000000462462 035 $a(EBL)556712 035 $a(OCoLC)714567376 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000235822 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12085222 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000235822 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10165428 035 $a(PQKB)10977793 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556712 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556712 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380619 035 $a(OCoLC)70792207 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789401202763 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000462462 100 $a20210731d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRe-Membering the Black Atlantic $eOn the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory /$fLars Eckstein 210 1$aLeiden; $aBoston :$cBRILL,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 225 1 $aCross/Cultures ;$v84 300 $aBased on the author's dissertation (doctoral)--Universita?t Tu?bingen, 2003, under title: Der 'Black Atlantic' im Geda?chtnis der Literatur. 311 $a90-420-1958-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIllustrations -- Introduction -- PART I -- LITERARY MEMORY -- 1 Towards a Poetics of Mnemonic Strategy in Narrative Texts -- Testimonies: recourse to mental mnemonic resources -- Interlude: the testimony of Olaudah Equiano -- Palimpsests: recourse to manifest mnemonic resources -- PART II -- MNEMONIC FICTIONS OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC -- 2 Caryl Phillips, Cambridge -- The poetics of memory: the art of montage -- The politics of memory: empowering culture -- 3 David Dabydeen, A Harlot's Progress -- The poetics of memory: the art of ekphrasis -- The politics of memory: empowering the individual -- 4 Toni Morrison, Beloved -- The poetics of memory: the art of musicalization -- The politics of memory: empowering the collective -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Source Passages Adapted in Cambridge -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements. 330 $aThe Atlantic slave trade continues to haunt the cultural memories of Africa, Europe and the Americas. There is a prevailing desire to forget: While victims of the African diaspora tried to flee the sites of trauma, enlightened Westerners preferred to be oblivious to the discomforting complicity between their enlightenment and chattel slavery. Recently, however, fiction writers have ventured to 're-member' the Black Atlantic. This book is concerned with how literature performs as memory. It sets out to chart systematically the ways in which literature and memory intersect, and offers readings of three seminal Black Atlantic novels. Each reading illustrates a particular poetic strategy of accessing the past and presents a distinct political outlook on memory. Novelists may choose to write back to texts, images or music: Caryl Phillips's Cambridge brings together numerous fragments of slave narratives, travelogues and histories to shape a brilliant montage of long-forgotten texts. David Dabydeen's A Harlot's Progress approaches slavery through the gateway of paintings by William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Turner. Toni Morrison's Beloved , finally, is steeped in black music, from spirituals and blues to the art of John Coltrane. Beyond differences in poetic strategy, moreover, the novels paradigmatically reveal distinct ideologies: their politics of memory variously promote an encompassing transcultural sense of responsibility, an aestheticist 'creative amnesia', and the need to preserve a collective 'black' identity. 410 0$aCross/Cultures ;$v84. 517 3 $aOn the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory 606 $aEnglish 606 $aLiterature$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature$xBlack authors 606 $aRoman 615 0$aEnglish. 615 0$aLiterature$xBlack authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xBlack authors. 615 0$aRoman. 676 $a810.9896073 700 $aEckstein$b Lars$0803458 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777521703321 996 $aRe-Membering the Black Atlantic$93830525 997 $aUNINA