Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction: Slavery – An “Unmentionable” Past? 9
5. 1. The Concept of the African Diaspora and the Notion of Difference 39
6. 2. From Human Bondage to Racial Slavery: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy (2008) 55
7. 3. Rethinking the African Diaspora: Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother (2007) 79
8. 4. “Hertseer:” Re-Imagining Cape Slaver y in Yvette Christiansë’s Unconfessed (2006) 109
9. 5. Transnational Diasporic Journeys in Lawrence Hill’s The Book of Negroes (2007) 135
10. 6. A Vicious Circle of Violence: Revisiting Jamaican Slavery in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women (2009) 161
11. Epilogue: The Past of Slavery and “the Incomplete Project of Freedom” 191
12. Works Cited 197