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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
By Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen
336 pages
- Contributors:
- Includes content by:
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Maria Diedrich
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Carl Pedersen
David Eltis
David Richardson
Stephen D. Behrendt
Geneviève Fabre
Jesús Benito
Ana Manzanas
Françoise Charras
Maria DiedrichShow more
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Carl Pedersen
David Eltis
David Richardson
Stephen D. Behrendt
Geneviève Fabre
Jesús Benito
Ana Manzanas
Françoise Charras
Claudine Raynaud
Claude Julien
Cynthia S. Hamilton
Eva Boesenberg
Manisha Sinha
Clara Juncker
Lene Brøndum
Hélène Christol
Fritz Gysin
Marie Tyler-mcgraw
Hanna Wallinger
Katja Füllberg-stolberg
M. Giulia Fabi
Tobe Levin
Freifrau Von Gleichen
Johanna X. K. Garvey
Robert H. McCormick Jr.
Alessandro Portelli
Melba Joyce Boyd
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Place of publication:
- New York
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Subjects:
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African Americans in literature
American literature--African American authors--History and criticism
Slave Trade In Literature
Caribbean Literature (English)--Black Authors--History And Criticism
West Indian Literature (English)--History And Criticism
African Americans--Intellectual Life
Slavery In Literature
Blacks In Literature
Slave Trade--History
Synopsis
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole 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 time of the Middle Passage to the present day ....
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole 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 time of the Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Contributors ix
- Prologue 3
- 1 - The Middle Passage between History and Fiction Introductory Remarks 5
- Part I - Voyage through Death . . . 15
- 2 - Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867 21
- 3 - The Slave Ship Dance 33
- 4 - The (De-)Construction of the "Other" in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 47
- 5 - Landings 57
- 6 - . . . . the Poetics of Abjection in Beloved 70
- 7 - Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments 86
- Part II - . . . to Life upon These Shores 97
- 8 - Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment 103
- 9 - The Color of Money 117
- 10 - Judicial Nullification 127
- Title Page iii
- Contents v
- Contributors ix
- Prologue 3
- 1 - The Middle Passage between History and Fiction Introductory Remarks 5
- Part I - Voyage through Death . . . 15
- 2 - Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867 21
- 3 - The Slave Ship Dance 33
- 4 - The (De-)Construction of the "Other" in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 47
- 5 - Landings 57
- 6 - . . . . the Poetics of Abjection in Beloved 70
- 7 - Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments 86
- Part II - . . . to Life upon These Shores 97
- 8 - Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment 103
- 9 - The Color of Money 117
- 10 - Judicial Nullification 127
- 11 - Africa in South Carolina 144
- References 151
- 12 - The Persistence of Tradition 153
- 13 - The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage 164
- Part III - In Africa, There Are No Niggers 175
- 14 - The Enigma of the Return 183
- 15 - The Hues and Uses of Liberia 191
- 16 - Voyage into the Heart of Africa 203
- 17 - African Americans in Africa 215
- 18 - Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic 228
- 19 - Alice Walker, Activist 240
- 20 - Passages to Identity 255
- 21 - Return Passages Maryse Condé Brings Tituba Back to Barbados 271
- 22 - Mediterranean Passage 282
- Epilogue - Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife 305
- Index 307
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