Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-37758-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 207, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market ideology, which once justified and facilitated the exponential growth of the slave trade. The motif of unbridled capitalism recurs in all the works discussed herein; however, community, whether racial, political, utopian, or conceptual, emerges as a fitting frame of reference to reveal unsuspected facets of the relationships between all involved parties, and expose the ramifications of the trade across time and space. Ultimately, this book calls for a complete reevaluation of what it means to live together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lambert, Raphaël

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 The Slave Trade and Racial Community: Tamango and Roots

2 Patriotism and Political Communities: Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage

3 Community as Utopia: Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger

4 Rethinking the Slave Trade/Rethinking Community: Édouard Glissant’s “Relation” and Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Being-with”

Conclusion

Works Cited

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Raphaël Lambert (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2001) lives in Kyoto, Japan, and is professor of African American literature and culture at Kansai University in Osaka. His areas of expertise include African American and circum-Atlantic studies.