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Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song
- Title
- Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song / Tara T. Green.
- Author
- Green, Tara T.
- Publication
- ©2018
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
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Details
- Description
- x, 180 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Examines contemporary reimaginings of the Middle Passage by Black artists in film, literature, and song, arguing that these writers and artists recognize the Middle Passage as a historical and geographical site of trauma but are able to reimagine the Middle Passage in their work in order to resist social death"--
- Series Statement
- Black performance and cultural criticism
- Uniform Title
- Black performance and cultural criticism.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index.
- Contents
- Understanding the Middle Passage -- Alex Haley's roots of resistance -- Middle Passage legacies in Charles Johnson and HBO's Treme -- Calling Marie Laveau -- Legacies of the Middle Passage -- Deadly waters, Southern blues, and Richard wright -- Katrina sings the blues in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the bones -- Telling of return and rebirth in Marshall's Praisesong for the widow -- Conclusion: Acts of redemption through forgiveness: remembering Charleston in the post-Middle Passage era.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-230
- ISBN
- 9780814213650
- 0814213650
- 9780814254714
- 0814254713
- LCCN
- 2017055652
- 40028300646
- OCLC
- 1002653264
- Author
- Green, Tara T., author.
- Title
- Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song / Tara T. Green.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Publisher
- Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Black performance and cultural criticismBlack performance and cultural criticism.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-175) and index.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40028300646
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-230