Raphael Lambert著、Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community. Brill, 2019. N.p.

In Narrating the Slave Trade, Theorizing Community, Raphaël Lambert explores the notion of community in conjunction with literary works concerned with the transatlantic slave trade. The recent surge of interest in both slave trade and community studies concurs with the return of free-market ideology, which once justified and facilitated the exponential growth of the slave trade. The motif of unbridled capitalism recurs in all the works discussed herein; however, community, whether racial, political, utopian, or conceptual, emerges as a fitting frame of reference to reveal unsuspected facets of the relationships between all involved parties, and expose the ramifications of the trade across time and space. Ultimately, this book calls for a complete reevaluation of what it means to live together.

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

    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

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