This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the USA, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Cuba and Columbia. The texts range from Alejo Carpentier's "El reino de este mundo" (1949) to Toni Morrison's "Beloved" (1987).
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
"Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas attempts something that few literary critics have been in a position to do: to examine comparatively novels about slavery across the English, French, and Spanish literary traditions in the U.S. and the Caribbean." -- George Handley, Brigham Young University Mississippi Quarterly
