Afrodiasporic forms : slavery in literature and culture of the African diaspora /
In Afrodiasporic Forms, Raquel Kennon provides an interdisciplinary, transnational literary and cultural study of modern racialized slavery. Blending close readings with cultural criticism that focuses on products of slavery's afterlife, poetry, prose, plays, painting, telenovelas, sculpture, p...
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. "Traveling Through Fog": Slavery's Memorial Expressions in the Black World
- "White Skin, Black Slavery": Bernardo Guimaräes's A Escrava Isaura and the Global Telenovela
- Subtle Resistance: On Sugar and the Mammy Figure in Kara Walker's A Subtlety and Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose
- "Black Flesh After Flame": Lynching, Resistance, and the Legacy of Slavery in the Poetry of Jean Toomer and Robert Hayden
- Os Laços de Lembrança e Esquecimento: Reading Pelourinho, Castro Alves's "O navio negreiro," Carolina Maria de Jesus's Quarto de despejo, and Other Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature
- Azúcar, (Auto)biografía, and Absence: Juan Francisco Manzano, Esteban Montejo, and the Cuban Poetics of Slavery
- Epilogue. A Gate of Return: Toward an Infinite Sum of Afrodiasporic Forms.