Racism, slavery, and literature
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Racism, slavery, and literature
P. Lang, c2010
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
The papers presented here offer a major challenge to previously conceived ideas about issues like slavery, racism, ethnic relations, nationalism, and cultural identity generating responses, critiques, revisions, counterarguments, and new perspectives. This volume is not only meant to address important matters of the past but also of the present and future as racism, ethnic relations, and cultural identity - with the attendant issues of human rights, freedom, and emancipation - will assume an ever-increasing significance in our globalised but ethically, socially, and culturally divided world. The volume is subdivided into three sections: "Racism and Nationalism" containing papers dealing with issues of racism and nationalism in a broader context, "Slavery: From Past to Present" exploring the concept of slavery in different literary genres and historical periods, "Cultural Identity and Ethnic Relations" dealing with cultural memory, nationalism, and relations between cultural and ethnic groups.
Table of Contents
Contents: Wolfgang Zach/Ulrich Pallua: Introduction - Wolfgang Benz: The Construction of Modern Antisemitism: From Race Ideology to Genocide - Lucy Collins: "Where are we heading?" Fred D'Aguiar and the Poetics of Race - Yasue Arimitsu: Nation and Literature: Literary Possibilities in a Multicultural Society - Dave Gunning: Ethnicity Politics in Contemporary Black British and British Asian Literature - Thomas Spielbuchler: Ethnicity as a Stumbling Block in Postcolonial Africa - Claude Couture: Racism, Nationalism and Literature: the Case of French Canada - Wolfgang Zach/Ulrich Pallua/Adrian Knapp/Cynthia Rauth: Slavery and Literature: The Abolition Period in Britain. Main Results of a Research Project - Anthony Barthelemy: Fictions of Benevolence: Huckleberry Finn and the Residual Cruelty of Slavery - Donathan Lawrence Brown: In Defense of Slavery & Negative Difference: George Fitzhugh and Negro Slavery - Mary Niall Mitchell: They Called Her "Ida May": Truth, Fiction, and Race After the Fugitive Slave Act - Andreas Oberprantacher: Bare Life Sovereignty, Biopower and Modern Slavery in Contemporary Political Theory - Andrew Milne-Skinner: Liverpool's Slavery Museum: a Blessing or a Blight? - Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan: Interculturality and (Post)colonialism: Ethnicity, Nationalism, Cultural Memory and Identity - Brigitte Glaser: Crossing Borders: Interracial Relationships in English Colonial Fiction - Laurie R. Cohen: The 'Other' Image of Women Antimilitarists, or Watching Women Duel - Rudiger Ahrens: Ethical Norms and Ethnic Frictions in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee - Andrea Strolz: A Map to the Middle Passage as Heterotopia: Cultural Memory in Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999).
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