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Black imagination and the middle passage
- Title
- Black imagination and the middle passage / edited by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 320 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute
- Uniform Title
- W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
- Subject
- 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
- African Americans in literature
- Slavery in literature
- Black people in literature
- Slave-trade > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: "The Middle Passage blues" / James A. Emanuel -- The Middle Passage between history and fiction / Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen -- Patterns in the transatlantic slave trade, 1662-1867 / David Eltis, David Richardson, Stephen D. Behrendt -- The slave ship dance / Geneviève Fabre -- The (de-)construction of the "other" in The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano / Jesús Benito, Ana Manzanas -- Landings : Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's poetic renderings of the Middle Passage in comparative perspective / Françoise Charras -- The poetics of abjection in Beloved / Claudine Raynaud -- Surviving through a pattern of timeless moments : a reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river / Claude Julien -- Dislocation, violence, and the language of sentiment / Cynthia S. Hamilton -- The color of money : economic structures of race and gender under slavery / Eva Boesenberg -- Judicial nullification : the South Carolinian movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s / Manisha Sinha -- Africa in South Carolina : Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and other places / Clara Juncker -- "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 -- Epilogue: Transatlantic passages revisited, Tenerife / Melba Joyce Boyd.
- Call Number
- Sc E 99-1163
- ISBN
- 0195126408 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0195126416 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 98024622
- OCLC
- 39256938
- Title
- Black imagination and the middle passage / edited by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Series
- W.E.B. Du Bois InstituteW.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Diedrich, Maria.Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.Pedersen, Carl.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 99-1163