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Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Plantation Spaces and the Black Body: Quentin Tarantino s Django Unchained as Maroon Narrative(2014)This article reads Django Unchained as a maroon narrative. It argues that the film s spatial poetics critique the American symbolic landscapes of the West and the South as well as their cinematic representation. The analysis examines the depiction of the black body and the blending of Western and Southern spaces in an American business master narrative. In this setup, Tarantino s self-made black cowboy figure is not heroic but remains a cipher in both epistemologies. Django acts as a ghost who haunts the plantation and the frontier in a series of masquerades, thus pointing to the pitfalls of cinema history and national myth-making.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1710 342 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Beyond Magic Realism: the Stuff of Ordinary Lives? Lorene Cary s Rewriting of Beloved(2014)In the current context of the proliferation of neo-slave narratives, Lorene s Cary The Price of a Child (1995) strikes a rather singular tone. With its title explicitly echoing Toni Morrison s Beloved, Cary s novel and its straightforward realism come as a surprise. As this close intertextual reading of the two novels intends to show, beyond expressing a probable anxiety of influence, Cary s narrative appears to revise major tenets of the African American ethos on which Beloved rests.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1602 153 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Standing Up To Words: Writing and Resistance in Toni Morrison s A Mercy(2014)In Toni Morrison s A Mercy, the protagonist represents both the historical and the contemporary African American author. As Mueller argues, her act of carving words into walls can be read as an act of resistance against the historical silencing of the black voice as well as politically against symbolic violence exercised through language.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1418 332 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Post-Beloved Writing: Review, Revitalize, Recalculate(2014)Twenty-five years have elapsed since the publication of Beloved. In all its complexity, Toni Morrison s novel forms a peak, both concluding the previous decades of neo-slave narratives and introducing the following ones. As the following article argues, reviewing the many ways the novel has closed a period and opened a new one will help us gain a new perspective and understand new articulations and developments in slav-ery literature. Misrahi-Barak contends that the genre of the neo-slave nar-rative has ceased to be African-American only, but has become trans-national and global, dialogic, polyphonic and trans-generic. It has also been instrumental in implementing a rapprochement between disciplines that used to be watertight.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1485 244 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Reading/Writing "the most wretched business": Toni Morrison s A Mercy(2014)The epilogue of Toni Morrison s A Mercy (2008) is narrated by the teenage character-narrator Florens mother. Though addressed to her daughter, the mother s words are heard/read only by the reader, who is left with the (merciful?) gift of understanding and reinterpreting the very act that is at the center of the novel. The picture (s)he shapes, the telling (s)he hears (161), are conditioned by Florens narration the affective lens through which the world (161) and the narrative are to be read. The reader s legitimacy is recognized and rewarded at the very end of A Mer-cy. Indeed, the mother s account, conjured up by Florens, is staged as an imaginary reconciliation, arising from the reading itself, as well as from the reader s affective, aesthetic desire for such reconciliation.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1308 141 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Editors' Note(2014); This editors note launches the first peer-reviewed Black Studies online journal founded in Europe, Black Studies Papers, and introduces its first issue, entitled Slavery Revisited.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1328 142 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, The Ghost Got It Wrong: Frances E. W. Harper and Toni Morrison. A Century A/Part(2014)The article considers some key differences between Harper s poetic treatment of Margaret Garner s life in The Slave Mother, A Tale of the Ohio and Morrison s fictional diversion from actual historical events in Beloved. The essay critiques the creative reasoning of the author s imag-inary with regards to the ghost s haunting of her family, especially her mother. The essay also considers the inclusion of the ghost at the end of the opera, Margaret Garner, another problematic that runs counter to a re-alizable appreciation of her true story.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1397 143 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Writing/Reading Slavery as Trauma: Othering, Resistance, and the Haunting Use of Voice in Toni Morrison s A Mercy.(2014)For the first time since Beloved, Toni Morrison returns to slavery in A Mercy (2008): the slave trade is allegorized as a pox upon the initially utopian Vaark farm. Though in the face of systematic discourses of oth-ering, each oppressed character puts up strategies of resistance, the dialec-tic of love, loss, and alienation in Florens s story permeates the entire nov-el. But Florens s voice offers resistance and empowerment as well: the house that Jacob built and that Florens haunts is, in a mise en abyme of the house of fiction reclaimed by Toni Morrison, a black repossession of the house that slavery built.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1649 354 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, To Remember or Not to Remember: Traumatic Memory and the Legacy of Slavery in Octavia E. Butler s Kindred and Toni Morrison s Beloved(2014)Toni Morrison s Beloved and Octavia Butler s Kindred share many thematic and stylistic conventions which illustrate intertextual connections between the neo-slave narrative and critical dystopias. Moreover, they both focus on the effect of history on the present and the continuing legacy of slavery on social ties, identity and agency. As the article argues, central themes of traumatic history and memory are problematized in these novels through the trope of maternal genealogy and the conse-quences its severance has on affective relationships, race relations and personal identity. Varsam contends that the violent legacy of slavery is transformed from a central marker of traumatic memory to a reference point of survival and personal and social renewal.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:11109 720 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item-typ:Veröffentlichung, Introduction Weaving Texts and Memories Around Toni Morrison s Beloved.(2014)In this introduction, Michel Feith problematizes the complex relation between writing and the history of slavery by focusing on two case studies that reconfigure this relation: an examination of the Memorial for the Abolition of Slavery, inaugurated in Nantes, France in 2012, and a triangulation between Toni Morrison s Beloved, and Saidiya Hartman s Scenes of Subjection (1997) and Lose Your Mother (2007). What common ground seems to emerge from these two case studies memory as a sort of compromise formation in the monument, and the varying mixes of ob-jectivity and empathy in the texts is a sense of haunting, accompanied by an always compromised endeavor to lay at rest the ghosts of the Middle Passage.Wissenschaftlicher ArtikelBand:1Heft:1504 154