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Abstract

Neo-slave narratives emerged on the American literary scene with the publication of Jubilee, by Margaret Walker (1966), but only had effective recognition in the 1980s, with the release of Beloved, by Toni Morrison (1987). Conceived as “contemporary novels that assume the form, adopt the conventions and take on the first-person voice of antebellum slave narrative” (RUSHDY, 1997), according to Judith Misrahi-Barak (2014), they were gradually distancing themselves from this model and today they can be considered transnational and global, as well as dialogic, polyphonic and transgenic. In this perspective and with the support of Cultural Studies and the postmodern concept of historiographic metafiction, this work proposes the analysis of the representation of the diasporic subject in The Book of Negroes, by the Canadian author Lawrence Hill (2014), which has as its theme the trajectory of slaves during the validity of the slave system. By shifting the narrative voice to the oppressed, Hill challenges the discourse of history, brushing it against the grain.

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Title
A REPRESENTAÇÃO DO SUJEITO DIASPÓRICO EM O LIVRO DOS NEGROS, DE LAWRENCE HILL
Author
Carreira, Shirley de Souza Gomes 1 

 Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil 
Pages
385-404
Publication year
2021
Publication date
Jan-Apr 2021
Publisher
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, UFSC Centro de Comunicação e Expressão
ISSN
01014846
e-ISSN
21758026
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
2522188082
Copyright
© 2021. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.