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Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who, from a 21st-century perspective, revisit slavery in the U.S., Ghana, South Africa, Canada and Jamaica. Nehl´s provocative readings of Toni Morrison´s A Mercy, Saidiya Hartman´s Lose Your Mother, Yvette Christians‰´s Unconfessed, Lawrence Hill´s The Book of Negroes
and Marlon James´ The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration, this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti-black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re-)appropriating slavery´s archive.

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"An important contribution to the study of this new generation of neo-slave narratives that continues to develop with no end in sight as it engages the history and afterlife of chattel slavery on a transnational level, recasting the African Atlantic at the beginning of a still young century from nuanced postslavery perspectives." Paula von Gleich, Amerikastudien, 62/4 (2018)

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Markus Nehl received his PhD from the Graduate School ¯Practices of Literature® at the University of Münster. His research interests include African American, Black Diaspora and Postcolonial Studies.

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