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... later work, of course. 16 Imraan Coovadia discusses the habitual rhetorical gestures of provocation and the comedic in both Bend and much of Naipaul’s travel writing, seeing them as claiming either that slaves approve their enslavement, or that the institution of slavery is benign (2009, 32–35...

...—both Rubenstein’s argument that plantation and “death-camp slave labor merely carried to a logical conclusion [the] … attitudes and procedures … [of ] the modern corporate enterprise” ([1978] 2001, 67), and Elkins’s preceding claim that “the products and consequences of slavery … [had] little … to do...

... allegorical and literal use of the blues. Copyright © Hofstra University 2019 fictional autobiography globalization modernity neo-slave narrative Paul Gilroy’s critique of modernity, The Black Atlantic (1993), is widely noted for positing a transnational framework for understanding...

... of “slavery” and “freedom” to suggest, audaciously, that the Abolition of Slavery was emblematic of a civilizing force the world was better off without. European women as bonded slaves is one of the most pivotal of these metaphors. Protesting not a lack of women’s rights but a set of European...

... for the unique trajectory that African American literature takes from the slave narrative through figures like Baldwin and Ellison, who draw from the autobiographical tradition and struggle with the balance between aesthetic experimentation and propagandistic political statement. That trajectory seems very...

...), the critical geographies of fugitive slave narratives written in Mexico as well as the US and Canada (Chapter Two), the perspectives on mainstream “American” literary movements such as modernism and the Beats made possible by a transnational or non-US-based optic (Chapters Three and Four), comparative...

... ists whose sympathetic anger regarding their degraded ancestors forces them to reject the language and art of imperialist slave masters. Walcott complains: They cannot separate the rage of Caliban from the beauty of his speech when the speeches of Caliban are equal...

... to thee, Thy son, in time, I have returned to thee. In time, for though the sun is setting on A song-lit race of slaves, it has not set; Though late, O soil, it is not too late yet To catch thy plaintive soul, leaving, soon gone, Leaving, to catch thy...

... Corregidora, the Portuguese slave breeder and whoremonger” impregnated women, whom he had enslaved, including his own daughter, “and fathered his own breed” ( C 8–9); in twentieth-century Kentucky, his descendant Ursa is repeatedly urged by her grandmother and great-grandmother to “make generations” (10...

... American identity formation are still radically determined by a Hegelian narrative in which “the master strikes the slave, the slave strikes back, and thus a man is created” (4). The representative instance of this dynamic of course is Frederick Douglass’s now-mythic thrashing of the slave breaker...

... labor became the foundation stone not only of the Southern social structure, but of Northern manufacture and commerce, of the English factory system, of European commerce, of buying and selling on a world-wide scale.” 4 James ([1938] 1989 : 47) writes, “The slave-trade and slavery were...

...) 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...

... Mary­ land, the fine that later came to divide N orth from South, free states from slave. The novel follows them, in part 1, “Latitudes and Departures,” from their m eeting in 1760, w hen they travel to Cape Town to observe the Transit o f Venus between the earth and the sun...

... to preserve the meaning not merely o f making, but also o f mak­ ing up, o f inventing things not actually real. —James Clifford, “Partial Truths” (6) It ain’t about right or wrong, truth or lies; it’s about a slave woman w ho brought a w hole new...

... achieved. Norman proposes the useful critical term “temporal dysphoria to explain the effect of seeing images of Jim Crow today when dominant cultural narratives suggest they should be then” (6). He contrasts the neo-segregation narrative with the “neo-slave narrative,” a concept associated...

... relations. 12 As Mrs. Ellsworth remains resolutely attached to Oceola despite the latter’s loyalty to Pete, Hughes signifies on the antebellum triangulation of the jealous white mistress positioned in forced sexual competition with a hapless slave woman, all for the favor of the white master. 13...

...) Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” and Voigt’s sonnet sequence, like the three earlier works, portray “the 1918 influenza pandemic as destabilizing and linked to gender changes but they differ in denying their characters the possibility of positive transformation” (38). And Buchi Emecheta’s The Slave...

... similarities end as soon as we look at poems that engage law, such as Philip’s Zong!, which ironically reorders the language of a 1783 legal decision concern- ing the slaughter of the “cargo” of a slave ship, or Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison’s “Annie Pengelly,” which “represent[s] the case” (51...

..., on Walzer’s view, is crucial for questions of citizenship: “Hard work,” he writes, “is distributed to degraded people. Citizens are set free; the work is imposed on slaves, resident aliens, ‘guest workers’—outsiders all” (Spheres 165). If doing hard work signifies someone as a degraded outsider...

... of landowners and multitudes of tenants,” Jean Louise describes the antebellum South as “an agricultural society with a handful of large landowners, multitudes of dirt farmers, and slaves.” Dr. Finch first acknowledges she is “correct,” but then, to focus on the Anglo-Saxon heritage of Southern whites, tells...