Open AccessBook Review: Re-Membering the Black Atlantic: on the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory by Lars Eckstein (2006)
Author(s) -
Ahmed Seif Eddine Nefnouf
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal online of humanities
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-5155
DOI - 10.24113/ijohmn.v5i3.102
Subject(s) - complicity , poetics , enlightenment , history , atlantic world , politics , literature , unconscious mind , art , psychoanalysis , psychology , philosophy , poetry , political science , law , ancient history , theology
Eckstein (2006) notes that the Atlantic slave trade has continuously haunted the cultural memories of Europe, Africa, and America. In fact, everyone wishes to forget about it. Many of the victims of the African origin tried to run away from the sites that they got traumatized, while those who were enlightened especially, the Westerners preferred to remain unconscious to these upsetting complicity between slavery and enlightenment. In the last few years, many fiction writers have made a decision to venture in re-membering the Black Atlantic.