| Summary: | This essay examines how the post-memory of the suffering caused by the slave trade is depicted in two novels, Beloved (Toni Morrison) and Humus (Fabienne Kanor). In the first part, it analyses the modes of representing the body of the slave as well as the limits of the historical approach when one tries to account for the trauma. This essay argues that art is probably best suited to address that past. In the second part, the text focusses the specific portrayal of the body of the female slave in order to highlight how women artists articulate the return to the past and the representation of that body. Finally, this comparative study on the black feminine Atlantic is intended to contribute to the emergence of a history of Europe that is open to its alterities and aware of the presence of other memories and post-memories, which are often regarded as being irrelevant or inexistent. This work on post-memories of the Atlantic black wandering turns out to be most important since the memories and the history promoted by the State tend to disregard the role played by the later in the slave trade and/or to value memories and post-memories of other historical events.
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