Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series) - Softcover

Gates Jr., Henry Louis; Pedersen, Carl; Diedrich, Maria

 
9780195126419: Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)

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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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ISBN 10:  0195126408 ISBN 13:  9780195126402
Publisher: OUP USA, 1999
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