Televising Transnational Trauma offers a critical analysis of global media representations of the traumatic history of slavery in the Americas.
Reflecting on the profound influence of the American miniseries Roots and the Brazilian telenovela A Escrava Isaura on their respective genres, the book traces the evolution of serialized slave narratives on screen. These productions are explored through the lens of communal memory, shaped by culturally bound understandings of shared histories across both homogenous and disparate groups.
Taking a transnational approach, the book examines how these televisual series delicately balance respect for cultural sensibilities with the demands of historical accuracy, archival material, and global engagement.
By considering a wide range of series from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Francophone worlds, Myriam Mompoint highlights how these works circulate as cultural commodities in both domestic and export markets. In doing so, she explores how they reinscribe the legacies of slavery within the constraints of contemporary media.
Engaging with memory studies, media studies, trauma theory, and spectrality, Televising Transnational Trauma brings a fresh perspective to comparative African diaspora scholarship. It critically examines how these televisual productions reflect and reimagine cultural memories of chattel slavery for audiences worldwide.
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"Myriam Mompoint's ground-breaking work highlights the continuing contemporary relevance of stories about systems of Atlantic enslavement. This important book is essential reading for those seeking to understand the cultural and communal memory of slavery as it has been broadcast on TV in North and South America and the Caribbean. Seeing these TV shows as artefacts of popular culture, as well as stories of imagined lives filling gaps in our knowledge of the experiences of the enslaved, Mompoint adds to our understanding of the ongoing legacy of this cultural, familial and individual trauma." - Dr Catherine Armstrong, Loughborough University "As we continue to grapple with the legacies of slavery in the Americas, Myriam Mompoint offers a vital insight into the complexity of cultural memory and how it is constructed through the telling and re-telling of stories of trauma, agency and resistance on the small screen. Spanning decades and continents, Televising Transnational Trauma provides a remarkable and critical multi-disciplinary analysis of the ways in which public consciousness continues to be shaped on a global scale." Dr Lydia Plath, Associate Professor University of Warwick.
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978-1-83624-266-6 (9781836242666)
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Myriam Mompoint is professor of humanities and French at Florida SouthWestern State College.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Transnational Traumas: Slavery as Serialized Spectacle of the Americas
Chapter 2: Comparative Geographies of Inimical Power and Radical Empowerment
Chapter 3: In the Flesh: Exploring Bodily Traumas
Chapter 4: Fluid Blackness: Reckoning with Slavery and Televisual Representation
Chapter 5: Global Platforms: Circulating Cultural Memories as Visual Narratives
Conclusion
