Research Catalog

Title

Africa and trans-Atlantic memories : literary and aesthetic manifestations of diaspora and history / edited by Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David V. Trotman.

Publication

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Jane.
• Lovejoy, Paul E.
• Trotman, David Vincent, 1946-

Description

vii, 477 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• African literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
• Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
• American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
• African diaspora in literature
• African diaspora in art
• Slavery in literature
• Slavery in art
• Slave trade in literature
• Africa > In literature

Note

• Book arises from a conference, Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora, that was held at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana in 2003.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-468) and index.

Contents

Narratives of trans-Atlantic slavery in the life stories of two Muslims / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Memories of "homeland" : historical and literary representations of enslavement & acculturation in the diaspora / Walter Rucker -- Middle passage afflictions in the work of Francisco Barrera y Domingo : literature, politics and disease / Manuel Barcia -- The language of slaves and servants : African agency and the Mobilian trade language in eighteenth-century Alabama / David Wheat -- The representations of slavery at Bonny and Asaba ; the traditional visual arts interrogate modern literature / Ikem Stanley Okoye -- Saramaka marks of beauty and literary forms : slavery memories of West African Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi -- Over the rainbow : African America stage artists and dreams of home in the early twentieth century / Karen Sotiropoulos -- Making space : reading "limbo" in dancehall performance & spatiality / Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah -- Exploring narratives of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in Amistad and Sankofa / Samuel Ayedime Kafewo -- Transcending the "dust" : African-American filmmakers preserving the "glimpse of the eternal" / Foluke Ogunleye -- History and memory in Capoeira lyrics from Bahia / Mathias Röhrig Assunc̦ão -- "Oh Africa! Why don't they leave you alone?" The images of Africa in the Calypso / David V. Trotman -- The Atlantic slave trade in West African history text books / Ella Keren -- The Atlantic slave trade in local history writing in Ouidah / Robin Law -- Rearticulations, reconnections and refigurations : writing Africa through the Americas / Andrea Davis -- Landscapes of memory : representing the African Diaspora's return "home" / Sandra L. Richards -- A fork in the road : Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising and Florence Ladd's Sarah's psalm on the subject of homecoming / Naana Opoku-Agyemang -- Un-imaging Africa : the nature and location of "Africa" in the works of Louise Bennett / Mark V. Campbell -- Modern African diaspora : the nervous conditions of ambiguous adventures / Chima I. Anyadike -- Grafting a new history : Rastafari memory gems articulating a "hermeneutics of Babylon" / Jahlani Bongo-Niaah -- Trans-Atlantic memories : the Black diaspora in the poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Kofi Awoonor / Mawuli Adjei -- The image of the Black soul : from the hut near the Congo to the banks of the Mississippi / Muyiwa Falaiye -- Armah's obsessions with the "middle passage" : reality and symbols / Benaouda Lebdai -- Hungry ghosts and restless spirits : lyric voices of the middle passage / Lorrie N. Smith.

Call Number

Sc D 10-1256

ISBN

• 1592216331 (pbk.)
• 9781592216338 (pbk.)
• 1592216323 hardcover) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781592216321 hardcover) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2008005499

OCLC

212008156

Title

Africa and trans-Atlantic memories : literary and aesthetic manifestations of diaspora and history / edited by Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David V. Trotman.

Imprint

Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-468) and index.

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Table of contents only

Added Author

Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Jane.

Lovejoy, Paul E.

Trotman, David Vincent, 1946-

Research Call Number

Sc D 10-1256