Transnational Black Dialogues : Re Imagining Slavery in the Twenty First Century Markus Nehl focuses on black authors who from a 21st century perspective revisit slavery in the U.S. Ghana South Africa Canada and Jamaica. Nehls provocative readings of Toni Morrisons A Mercy Saidiya Hartmans Lose Your Mother Yvette Christiansës Unconfessed Lawrence Hills The Book of Negroesand Marlon James The Book of Night Women delineate how these texts engage in a fruitful dialogue with African diaspora theory about the complex relation between the local and transnational and the enduring effects of slavery. Reflecting on the ethics of narration this study is particularly attentive to the risks of representing anti black violence and to the intricacies involved in (re )appropriating slaverys archive.