{"title":"On Burning Canadian Literature in Amsterdam: In the Afterlives of National Literatures","authors":"R. Zacharias","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0028","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2011, Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel, The Book of Negroes, was burned by protestors in the Netherlands. This essay considers the controversy surrounding Hill's novel to explore the international circulation of literature and reflect on the enduring impact of national literatures in our ostensibly globalized present.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"71 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0028","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In 2011, Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel, The Book of Negroes, was burned by protestors in the Netherlands. This essay considers the controversy surrounding Hill's novel to explore the international circulation of literature and reflect on the enduring impact of national literatures in our ostensibly globalized present.