Rebellious Histories

Matthew J. Christensen is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas–Pan American.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Rebellious Histories1. Cinque/Sengbe: Naming the Transnational Subject2. Cannibals in the Postcolony: Charlie Haffner’s Amistad Kata-Kata and the Moral Economy of Global Consumption3. Neoliberal Masculinity, Black Transnationalism, and the United States’ Disappearing borders in Amistad and Echo of Lions4. Enslaving Globalization: Trans-Atlantic Slavery, Civil War, and Modernity in Raymond DeSouza-George’s The Broken HandcuffConclusion: Rebellious FuturesNotesWorks CitedIndex

"…[a] noteworthy contribution to slavery studies … Christensen … [has] invited scholars of West African literatures to rethink literary representations of slavery and the slave trades within specifically West African trajectories." — Research in African Literatures"...a distinct reward of reading Christensen's work is the access we are given to the diverse and compelling archive he excavates … [his] bold survey of these varied media is both sensitively inclusive and sophisticatedly critical … Christensen's book is a timely contribution to a recently emerging body of critical literature that analyzes African representations of the transatlantic slave trade and the trade's implications for contemporary political discourse." — College Literature"Rebellious Histories tells how the actions of enslaved Africans resonated beyond one particular historical moment. It is a significant contribution to the 'literary' study of slave rebellions, as well as to postcolonial studies and the study of the Atlantic world." — Jack Shuler, author of Calling Out Liberty: The Stono Slave Rebellion and the Universal Struggle for Human Rights