The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition

Miller, R. Baxter; Bell, Bernard W.

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“…The novel that marks the beginning of these slavery neo-narratives is Jubilee (1966), by Margaret Walker (1915-1998. Other authors include, for example, James Baldwin (1924-1987), Maya Angelou (1928-2014 and 2. "(...) modern narratives of escape from bondage to freedom" (our translation).…”

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“…This categorization of the African-American narrative as neo-slave is recent in academic studies of literature. Bernard W. Bell (1987) carries out a sociocultural and critical reading of the history of African-American narrative, he is the pioneer in coining this nomenclature (in principle without a hyphen) to designate "(...) modern narratives of escape from servitude to freedom". (Bell, 1987, p.286) 2 and which are constructed from popular culture, emphasizing the premise of folklore in its context.…”

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“…Asharaf Rushdy (1997;1999) redefines the term, using it with a hyphen and popularizing it among academic studies, conceptualizing it as a "contemporary narrative of slavery" that is contextualized as an antebellum slave narrative. His definition has a more detailed scope than Bell (1987), as for him the neoslave novel is produced in several categories such as historical novel, social realist, magical realist, genealogical, etc.…”

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Transgression and Resilience in the Work the Way Home by Yaa Gyasi

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Pinheiro-Mariz

2024

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African-American literature brings to light many intertwined aspects of the history of African and American peoples. Among them, one of the themes discussed in this literature is slavery and its consequences for today's society. This work seeks to carry out a study on the work The Way Home (2017), by the writer Yaa Gyasi, analyzing the characteristic features of the enslavement narratives, as well as the construction of the transgressive and resilient character in the work. To do this, we will address Timothy Spaulding's ( 2005) studies on the postmodern narrative of slavery, with indispensable discussions for thinking about this harsh reality of black-American people. These reflections are the result of ongoing research, which is characterized as qualitative and bibliographical research.

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Transgression and Resilience in the Work the Way Home by Yaa Gyasi

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Pinheiro-Mariz

2024

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“…On the other hand, neo-slave narratives first appeared in the U.S. in the sixties and seventies later attracting the attention of scholars such as Bernard W. Bell (1987) and Ashraf H. A. Rushdy (1999), who debated over the use of the term neo-slave narrative to denominate what appeared to them as a new literary genre.…”

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From slavery to prison: necropolitics and the (neo)slave narrative in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

Junior

2023

Cad. Letras UFF

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In his seventh novel Colson Whitehead focuses on the recent scandalous discovery of clandestine mass graves found at Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, a reform school in Florida. During its 111 years of existence the school became the target of various investigations as rumors about maltreatment of its juvenile detainees were sporadically spread. Whitehead focuses on the mass graves and specifically on the black corpses and produces a fictional narrative out of these corpses as a form to reject forgetting and unbury a scandalous event that most Americans would prefer not to be informed. Through Mbembe’s concept of necropolitics I claim that The Nickel Boys reveals another scandal: the persistent necropolitical nature of US incarceration system. My argument is that the palimpsest structure of the novel as it juxtaposes the prison novel with the (neo)slave narrative eventually creates a precise illustration of Mbembe’s critique on modern democracies as postulated in his concept of necropolitics.

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“…Com a abolição da escravatura, as narrativas de escravizados caíram no esquecimento e somente na década de 1960, na esteira do Movimento dos Direitos Civis, a escravidão voltou a ser objeto da literatura, porém, obviamente, em uma abordagem ficcional. O romance Jubilee, de Margaret Walker, tem sido considerado o marco do surgimento de uma nova vertente literária, denominada neonarrativa de escravidão (Bell, 1987;Rushdy, 1999), que alcançou amplo reconhecimento na penúltima década do século XX, principalmente após a publicação do romance Amada, de Toni Morrison (2007). A partir de então, houve uma espécie de boom dessas narrativas, que não mais se restringiram ao contexto afro-estadunidense, expandindo-se em outros países que também estiveram sob o regime escravocrata, dentre eles, o Brasil.…”

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“Alma”, de Itamar Vieira Junior

Carreira

2024

Eixo Roda

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O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar o conto “Alma”, de Itamar Vieira Junior, publicado na coletânea Doramar ou a odisseia: histórias (Vieira Junior, 2021), na perspectiva das neonarrativas de escravidão (Rushdy, 1997), ou seja, de narrativas que se ambientam na época do sistema escravagista e se apropriam de alguns elementos típicos dos relatos de escravos dos séculos XVIII e XIX, como a enunciação em primeira pessoa, o relato das atrocidades do regime escravocrata e da fuga. As neonarrativas de escravidão surgiram em um contexto anglófono na década de 1960, entretanto, se difundiram nos países em que o sistema escravocrata foi implantado, e há várias obras que podem ser assim compreendidas na literatura brasileira contemporânea. O artigo reflete também sobre o modo como essas narrativas produzem novas formas de experiência estética, bem como um realismo afetivo (Schøllhammer, 2013) que é evocado além da representação. No conto de Vieira Junior, o efeito de realidade está estreitamente ligado à questão étnico-racial e à intervenção na realidade receptiva (Schøllhammer, 2012, p. 130).

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The Afro-American Novel and Its Tradition

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Transgression and Resilience in the Work the Way Home by Yaa Gyasi

Transgression and Resilience in the Work the Way Home by Yaa Gyasi

From slavery to prison: necropolitics and the (neo)slave narrative in Colson Whitehead’s The Nickel Boys

“Alma”, de Itamar Vieira Junior

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