“INTO THE WATER”: ТЕЧНА РАВНИЦА, ДРАМА НАОМИ ВОЛАС О ТРАНСАТЛАНТСКОЈ ТРГОВИНИ РОБЉЕМ И ЊЕН ЗНАЧАЈ ЗА БОЉЕ РАЗУМЕВАЊЕ САВРЕМЕНЕ ИСТОРИЈЕ ЕВРОПЕ, АФРИКЕ И ДВЕЈУ АМЕРИКА
“INTO THE WATER“: NAOMI WALLACE PLAY THE LIQUID PLAIN ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE FOR THE BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF EUROPE, AFRICA AND AMERICAS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to offer an analysis of Naomi Wallace’s play The Liquid Plain, showing it to be one with the tradition created by modern intellectuals, writers, artists, historians, anthropologists and filmmakers who provide new powerful arguments against slavery and racism in the European and American past and present. The paper also analyses historical characters in The Liquid Plain who played key roles in the history of the Caribbean Islands during the slave trade but are not well known to the general public. Furthermore, the paper shows the play to be truthrevealing and myth-disrupting because it demonstrates to what extent the economy of the American North was dependent on slavery and slave trade as much as that of the American South. The Liquid Plain also uncovers one more forgotten phenomenon, and that is “white” slavery. Finally, the paper considered The Liquid Plain to be significant criticism of racism in Europe and America because it shows racism to be deliberately encouraged and exploited in order to prevent solidarity between black slaves and equally abused white workers. The story of the past that Naomi Wallace tells is valuable because it is full of clarifying instights into our troubled present.

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