The Trans-Atlanticist
The Trans-Atlanticist
Andrew Sola
LadyFiction #12: Art, Science, and the Legacies of Slavery in Esi Edugyan's Washington Black
47 minutes Posted Apr 5, 2022 at 8:30 am.
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with Stefanie Schaefer and Nele Sawallisch

With her guest Nele Sawallisch, Stefanie discusses Esi Edugyan's 2018

novel Washington Black. With Olaudah Equiano's 1789 autobiography as
intertext, the novel entangles the adventure story with the slave
narrative. As Washington Black travels from Barbados to the Arctic, from
Virginia to London, his narrative asks about the (hi)stories that remain
out of the light and the making of 19th century discoverer personas
against the backdrop of gratuitous black labor.