Show notes
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 asintertext, the novel entangles the adventure story with the slavenarrative. As Washington Black travels from Barbados to the Arctic, fromVirginia to London, his narrative asks about the (hi)stories that remainout of the light and the making of 19th century discoverer personasagainst the backdrop of gratuitous black labor.
