Black imagination and the Middle Passage

Diedrich, Maria. (Added Author). Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (Added Author). Pedersen, Carl. (Added Author).

Summary: This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day.

Record details

ISBN: 0195126416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195126419 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195126408 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195126402 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195126416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0195126408 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0198029195 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780198029199 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 320 p.)
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Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatBulkString:jan.10.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"The persistence of tradition" : the retelling of Sea Islands culture in works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall / Lene Brøndum -- The African American concept of the fantastic as Middle Passage / Hélène Christol -- The enigma of the return / Fritz Gysin -- The hues and uses of Liberia / Marie Tyler-McGraw -- Voyage into the heart of Africa : Pauline Hopkins and Of one blood / Hanna Wallinger -- African Americans in Africa : Black missionaries and the "Congo atrocities," 1890-1910 / Katja Füllberg-Stolberg -- Sexual violence and the Black Atlantic : on Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy / M. Giulia Fabi -- Alice Walker, activist : matron of FORWARD / Tobe Levin, Freifrau von Gleichen -- Passages to identity : re-membering the diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- Return passages : Maryse Condé brings Tituba back to Barbados / Robert H. McCormick, Jr. -- Mediterranean passage : the beginnings of an African Italian literature and the African American example / Alessandro Portelli -- "Transatlantic passages revisited, Tenerife" / Melba Joyce Boyd.
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