Update from author Manu Herbstein
Author Manu Herbstein wrote FictionthatMatters with an update about his work Ama – A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade:
Wits PhD student Senayon Olaoluwa’s “Facing Up to Horror: Of Passion, Multiple Complicity and Survival in Manu Herbstein’s Ama: A Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade” has been accepted for publication in the Selected Papers of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association (2007). This 10,000-word paper examines the novel in terms of Jacques Depelchin’s Silences in African History: Between the Syndromes of Discovery and Abolition (2005), “which seeks to unsettle and radicalize established perspectives on African history.”
Senayon presented another long paper, “Beyond Disability: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade And Female Heroism In Manu Herbstein’s Ama” at a CODESRIA conference in Cairo a few months back, but I’m not sure whether, or when, that will be published.
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