Black Lives Under Nazism - Making History Visible in Literature and Art

This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Invisible and Invented Archives
Part I: Documenting the Past: The Artist as Witness
Introduction to Part I
1. Outside the Frame: Josef Nassy’s Visual Diary of Internment in Nazi Germany
2. Broken Citizenship: Survivor Memoirs by Hans J. Massaquoi, Theodor Michael, and John William
Part II: Imagining the Past: The Artist as Historian
Introduction to Part II
3. Jazz Fiction and the Holocaust: Testimonial Objects in the Novels of John A. Williams and Esi Edugyan
4. Performing to Survive: “Queen of the Trumpet” Valaida Snow in Fiction, Drama, and Graphic Narrative
5. Postmemorial Landscapes of Black Europe: Maud Sulter’s Alpine Photomontages
Coda: Dancing Out History in Oxana Chi’s Durch Gärten Tanzen
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Sarah Phillips Casteel is professor of English at Carleton University, where she is cross-appointed to the Institute of African Studies, and a member of the Holocaust Educational Foundation’s Academic Council. Her most recent books are Calypso Jews: Jewishness in the Caribbean Literary Imagination (Columbia, 2016) and the coedited volume Caribbean Jewish Crossings: Literary History and Creative Practice (2019).

Summary

This groundbreaking book explores a range of largely overlooked literary and artistic works that challenge the invisibility of Black wartime history.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Phillips Casteel, Sarah Phillips Casteel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2024
• EAN: 9780231211963
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21196-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Education, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / History / Contemporary (1945-), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, History of Art, Modernism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people, literary criticism; art