Historiographic Metafiction And The Neo-slave Narrative
Pastiche and Polyphony in Caryl Phillips, Toni Morrison and Sherley Anne Williams
- Editore:
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
- EAN:
9783659478802
- ISBN:
3659478806
- Pagine:
- 76
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Historiographic Metafiction And The Neo-slave Narrative
The classic slave narrative recounted a fugitive slave¿s personal story condemning slavery and hence working towards abolition. The neo-slave narrative underlines the slave¿s historical legacy by unveiling the past through foregrounding African Atlantic experiences in an attempt to create a critical historiography of the Black Atlantic. The neo-slave narrative is a genre that emerged following World War II and presents us with a dialogue combining the history of 1970 - 2000. In this book I seek to explore how the contemporary counter-part of the classic slave narrative draws, reflects or diverges from the general conventions of its predecessor. I argue that by scrutinizing our notion of truth, the neo-slave narrative remains a relevant, important witness to the history of slavery as well as to today¿s still racialized society. The historiographic metafiction of the neo-slave narrative rewrites history with the goal of digesting the past and ultimately leading to future reconciliation.
