Racism, Slavery, and Literature

The papers presented here offer a major challenge to previously conceived ideas about issues like slavery, racism, ethnic relations, nationalism, and cultural identity generating responses, critiques, revisions, counterarguments, and new perspectives. This volume is not only meant to address important matters of the past but also of the present and future as racism, ethnic relations, and cultural identity - with the attendant issues of human rights, freedom, and emancipation - will assume an ever-increasing significance in our globalised but ethically, socially, and culturally divided world. The volume is subdivided into three sections: -Racism and Nationalism- containing papers dealing with issues of racism and nationalism in a broader context, -Slavery: From Past to Present- exploring the concept of slavery in different literary genres and historical periods, -Cultural Identity and Ethnic Relations- dealing with cultural memory, nationalism, and relations between cultural and ethnic groups."

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Wolfgang Zach, Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Innsbruck since 1994, is the Head of the English Department. His main areas of research include «Literatures in English» (esp. transcultural aspects, national stereotypes, racism, slavery, globalization), Irish Literature, English Literature of the 18th Century, and Literary Theory. Ulrich Pallua is a project collaborator at the University of Innsbruck, currently writing his post-doctoral thesis on «Drama and the British Abolition Period, 1696-1838». His main areas of research include literature about slavery, postcolonial literature, and contemporary literature about Africa.