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Re-Writing/Righting the Middle Passage in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts

Abid Larbi Labidi

International journal of comparative literature and translation studies, 2016-07, Vol.4 (3), p.53 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Footscray: Australian International Academic Centre PTY. Ltd (AIAC)

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  • Título:
    Re-Writing/Righting the Middle Passage in Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts
  • Autor: Abid Larbi Labidi
  • Assuntos: Black history ; Caribbean literature ; Cliff, Michelle ; Critics ; Cultural factors ; Cultural identity ; Eurocentrism ; Fiction ; Historical text analysis ; Literature ; Memory ; Narratives ; Novels ; Postcolonialism ; Slave trade ; Slavery ; Storytelling ; Text analysis ; Writers ; Writing
  • É parte de: International journal of comparative literature and translation studies, 2016-07, Vol.4 (3), p.53
  • Descrição: Based on a close textual analysis of Fred D’Aguiar’s tour de force novel Feeding the Ghosts (1998), this paper particularly examines how D’Aguiar’s narrative reconstructs (from a fictional perspective) submerged facts about the unrecorded and/or distorted history of slavery. One major episode of the ‘triangular trade’ will be brought under close scrutiny in this paper: the slaves’ horrendous experience of the Middle Passage with its unspeakable inflictions and degradations. I mainly argue that the literary text (fictional as it may seem) allows the retrieval of the slaves’ ‘inundated’ memories and lost testimonies while on board a slave-ship. This very experience has been immensely marginalized/or distorted in Eurocentric ‘official’ texts about a three-century-long enterprise that immensely enriched Europe and yet went forgotten in its grand narratives of Enlightenment and progress. I show how the slaves’ bodies, memories and identities are profoundly shattered by this infernal cross-Atlantic passage which brought millions of Africans to the Americans while burying their nightmarish tribulations in the very sea that witnessed their infamous passage. I also propose that unearthing the buried secrets of the Middle Passage is a vital task entrusted to the storyteller/writer in the Caribbean cultural and literary context.
  • Editor: Footscray: Australian International Academic Centre PTY. Ltd (AIAC)
  • Idioma: Inglês
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