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Date: 30-Jul-2025
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: Simonsen, Dobie and Baggesgaard (eds.) (2025)


Title: A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery
Subtitle: The Atlantic world and beyond. Volume II: Slavery, memory
and literature
Series Title: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/
Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/chlel.37

Editor(s): Karen-Margrethe Simonsen; Madeleine Dobie; Mads Anders
Baggesgaard

eBook ISBN:  9789027246240 Pages:  428 Price: Europe EURO 153.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027246240 Pages:  428 Price: U.K. £ 129.00
eBook ISBN:  9789027246240 Pages:  428 Price: U.S. $ 199.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027219145 Pages:  428 Price: Europe EURO 153.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027219145 Pages:  428 Price: Europe EURO 162.18
Hardback ISBN:  9789027219145 Pages:  428 Price: U.K. £ 129.00
Hardback ISBN:  9789027219145 Pages:  428 Price: U.S. $ 199.00

Abstract:

The second volume of "A Comparative Literary History of Modern
Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond" explores literary memory of
enslavement in post-slavery societies on four continents (North- and
South America, Africa and Europe). The twenty-two contributors to this
volume relate the memory work of literature to central questions of
cultural memory, testimony, and the formation of archives.
‘Literature’ here, as in the other volumes of this series, is
understood in the broadest sense as textual, visual, auditory,
cinematic, and performative genres. The volume asks: What are the
central metaphors, storylines and topoi of literary representations of
slavery? What kind of identities and political realities are created
or enabled by the texts? What are the performative effects of literary
language? Post-slavery literature is caught in a double endeavor:
vivifying the past, making identification possible while acknowledging
the moral distance, and the difficulties of remembering that past. The
volume is divided into six sections that take up different aspects and
problems of literary memory of slavery: counter-memories/memories of
resistance, the body as material archive, fictionality of history
writing, the bricolage of history, authorship/authenticity, and the
necessity of creative approaches to a history that is troublesome and
full of accumulated erasures. A previous volume, Vol. 1, explored
slavery and the emotions. The next volume, Vol. 3, will explore
authorship and literary culture in relation to slavery.

Written In: English (eng)



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