Transatlantic poetics of haunting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12737814 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franca Bernabei (Instituto de Salud de Bucaramanga, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-506 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Atlantic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-8810 • E-ISSN: 1740-4649 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14788810.2011.611722 |
| OpenAlex | W1994112002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
This essay discusses issues relevant to current redefinitions of the Black Atlantic through a comparative reading of the novels At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999) and Le Livre d'Emma (2001) written, respectively, by the Trinidad-born Dionne Brand and the Haitian-born Marie-Célie Agnant, both of whom emigrated to Canada in 1970. Agnant's novel is primarily concerned with exposing the legacy of pain, abjection, and silence that has been passed on to black women of the African diaspora, a legacy that persists in the present and is finally overturned when the suicide of the Haitian protagonist enables her to escape her “captivity” in a mental clinic in Québec. As for Brand's novel, its narrative inquest locates a similar act of sacrificial rebellion in the past (the putting to death of a slave woman who, in an act of revenge against the white plantation owners, poisoned her companions) and deploys this act strategically to open up the way to a drifting transatlantic progeny scattered across the Old and New Worlds. By focussing on these two exemplary Black Atlantic texts I explore their different approaches to issues such as the haunting effect of colonial history in the lives of the contemporary descendants of the African slaves, the curse (or the gift) of genealogical memory and forgetting, and the dislocating/relocating routes of the Black diaspora
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Colonialism · Diaspora · Inquest · Literature · Memoir · Narrative · Poetics · Poetry · Silence · Sociology · White (mutation · African history and culture studies · Canadian Identity and History · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · History
The names of history
Specters of the Atlantic
Silencing the Past
Cities of the Dead
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
Unforgetting Trauma
Transmettre par la parole, pas par le sang
Seascapes
Is Massa Day Dead? Black Moods in the Caribbean
The practice of everyday life
Eyeing the north star
The Place She Miss
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |