Isabel Kalous

List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabel Kalous is involved.

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Kalous, Isabel 2025 Chapter 10. Reimagining slavery from a twenty-first-century perspective: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (2016) and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad (2016) A Comparative Literary History of Modern Slavery: The Atlantic world and beyond, Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, Madeleine Dobie and Mads Anders Baggesgaard (eds.), pp. 168–187 | Chapter

This chapter focuses on two historical novels that were published in 2016 to great acclaim: Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing (re)imagine slavery from a twenty-first-century perspective. The chapter analyzes the novels’ literary representation of the Atlantic… read more