...Jennifer Gilchrist 2012 Jennifer Gilchrist Women, Slavery, and the Problem of Freedom in Wide Sargasso Sea Jennifer Gilchrist because I’m really a Savage Individualist. —Rhys (Letters 275) Jean Rhys’s presentation of the post...

... slavery, Jim Crow, and the Nazi Holocaust. The article demonstrates how the novel’s unconventional and controversial emplotment allows Williams to create a distinctive historical critique not only of slavery and the Holocaust but, more broadly, of otherization, racialized violence, and modernity itself...

...Danielle Christmas In William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner , and the responses to his novels, two contrasting discourses emerge: a commitment to the idea that histories of slavery and the Holocaust can be explained by economic motives, on one hand, and, on the other...

...Thomas F. Haddox Gayl Jones’s novel Corregidora has most often been read as testament to the continuity of the traumas of slavery and sexual violence across temporal and spatial boundaries—traumas transmitted and affirmed both through familial descent and through the enduring vitality of the blues...

...Michele Elam The winner of this year’s prize is Mark A. Tabone’s “Multidirectional Rememory: Slavery and the Holocaust in John A. Williams’s Clifford’s Blues.” The judge is Michele Elam. Elam’s scholarship and teaching in interdisciplinary humanities research spans literature and social science...

... seed becomes An everlasting song, a singing tree, Caroling softly songs of slavery, What they were, and what they are to me, Caroling softly souls of slavery. (14) Like so much of the volume, this poem begins with dusk, the “parting soul” of the first stanza...

...) it begins to arrive. The novel is based on the true story of Margaret Gar­ ner, an escaped slave who killed her daughter in a desperate bid to save her from the misery and indignity of slavery when threatened with re­ capture— a story very few people knew before the publication o f Mor­ rison’s...

... as claiming either that slaves approve their enslavement, or that the institution of slavery is benign (2009, 32–35). Of Salim’s account of the one family story, quoted above, Coovadia writes, “One imagines this story being told as a proud joke (106). 15 Simon Lewis notes the mischaracterization...

..., and elaborates on its causes, in his essay “Harlem Is Nowhere.” Written as Ellison worked on the manuscript for Invisible Man, “Harlem Is Nowhere” proposes that American Negroes are caught in a vast process of change that has swept them from slavery to the condition of industrial man...

...Doreen Fowler The book’s conclusion, “Revisioning Love and Slavery,” takes up a theme that has been suggested in earlier chapters—that “Toni Morrison in these latest novels ( Home and God Help the Child ) turns on her earlier works to critique them” (187). According to Wyatt, this critique...

...: African Americans and the Bible, Allen Dwight Callahan argues that African Americans heard, read, and retold the story of the Exo- dus more than any other biblical narrative. . . .Exodus was the Bible’s narrative argument that God was opposed to American slavery and would...

... with the outdated notion of inherent biological racial superiority and the indefensible power relations of chattel slavery, Jean Louise’s uncle, Dr. Finch, recognizes that Anglo-Saxon is “a dirty word these days” (195), a phrase suggesting that the term once held a cleaner meaning, which might yet be recovered...

... for an encrypted “performative rep- ertoire of Afro-Mexicans” (62) who escaped slavery in the United States but who were not literate (or did not have literate audiences) like their counterparts who fled north into Canada. These comparisons generate an exciting frame for revisiting representations of US...

... Wright, Frantz Fanon, James, John A. Williams, and others remained suspicious of any simplistic opposition between totalitarian slavery and democratic freedom, instead drawing inspiration from the strategic ambivalences of nonalignment to create texts “that were designed to manipulate, maneuver...

... and upsets the possibility of stating a master-thesis about literary responses to the pandemic. The Slave Girl (1977) and The Great Ponds (1969) “represent the 1918 influenza pan- demic in relation to indigenous aspects of African culture (kinship slavery, tribal warfare) rather than World War I” (177...

... Edward Covey, an act in which he resurrects himself, and implicitly the race, from what he calls the “tomb” of slavery. The problem is that, ideologically speaking, Douglass’s choice has become the choice, precluding a range of other possibilities. The perpetual replaying of this scene...

... and the institution of chattel slavery in its formation and subsequent nation-building practices ( Wald 2016 : 6–8). As Sarah Wald concludes, “the plantation slave is an unwritten subject that haunts Jefferson’s vision of the free and independent farmer” (6)—and, by extension, haunts the nation’s long-standing...

... somebody forces them—we’re not talk­ ing Simon Legree here boss but importantly, “‘of their own accord’” (198). Comeaux’s comparison to slavery here is important, for the situa­ tions are formally but not materially different. If the worst of the “Southern Way of Life” deprived slaves of selfhood...

... “infrastructure” of surveillance and the possibilities for deconstructing it. This includes not only reckoning with legacies of slavery and white supremacy but also learning from the history of black resistance: “First and foremost we see the openings provided by literacy: the slave who could read and write...

... with the work of Ashraf Rushdy: “The neo-slave narrative officially begins when we no longer have access to unmediated testimonial accounts of slavery,” whereas “the neo-segregation narrative . . . has not come into sharp focus because . . . not enough historical dis- tance [exists] between...