Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community.

Intro -- Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: All in the Same Boat -- 1 The Slave Trade and Racial Community: Tamango and Roots -- 1 Tamango and Roots in Context -- 2 The Hold and the Idea of Racial Community -- 3 The Perils of Racial Community -- 4 From Race to Political Consciousness -- 2 Patriotism and Political Communities: Charles Johnson's Middle Passage -- 1 Calhoun, Freedom, the Republic, and Manifest Destiny -- 2 Political Models: Ebenezer Falcon, the Crew, and the Allmuseri -- 3 Patriotism from Calhoun to the Invisible Man -- 4 From Slave Trade Politics to a World Beyond -- 3 Community as Utopia: Barry Unsworth's Sacred Hunger -- 1 Birth and Organization of the Settlement -- 2 The Fall of the Settlement -- 3 Age of Unreason and Liberal Involution -- 4 Self, Alterity, Community -- 5 Community: Getting to the Root of the Problem -- 4 Rethinking the Slave Trade/Rethinking Community: Édouard Glissant's "Relation" and Jean-Luc Nancy's "Being-With -- 1 Glissant's Creolization and Relation -- 2 From Glissant's Relation to Nancy's Being-With -- 3 From Slave Trade to Globalization: Errantry and Struction -- 4 The Radicant -- 5 Coda -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert applies contemporary theories of community to works of fiction about the slave trade in order to both shed new light on slave trade studies and rethink the very notion of community.

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