Black imagination and the middle passage / edited by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen
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| Subjects: | 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 Blacks in literature Slave trade--History |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Series: | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series) |
| LC Classification: | P, PS |
| Table of Contents: | Contributors Prologue: "The Middle Passage Blues" / James A. Emanuel 3 1. The Middle Passage between History and Fiction: Introductory Remarks / Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen 5 Pt. I. "Voyage through Death ..." 2. Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867: New Indications of African Origins of Slaves Arriving in the Americas / David Eltis, David Richardson, Stephen D. Behrendt 21 3. The Slave Ship Dance / Genevieve Fabre 33 4. The (De)Construction of the "Other" in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano / Jesus Benito, Ana Manzanas 47 5. Landings: Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's Poetic Renderings of the Middle Passage in Comparative Perspective / Francoise Charras 57 6. The Poetics of Abjection in Beloved / Claudine Raynaud 70 7. Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments: A Reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River / Claude Julien 86 Pt. II. "... To Life upon These Shores" 8. Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment / Cynthia S. Hamilton 103 9. The Color of Money: Economic Structures of Race and Gender under Slavery / Eva Boesenberg 117 10. Judicial Nullification: The South Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the 1850s / Manisha Sinha 127 11. Africa in South Carolina: Mamie Garvin Field's Lemon Swamp and Other Places / Clara Juncker 144 12. "The Persistence of Tradition": The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall / Lene Brondum 153 13. The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage / Helene Christol 164 Pt. III. "In Africa, There Are No Niggers" 14. The Enigma of the Return / Fritz Gysin 183 15. The Hues and Uses of Liberia / Marie Tyler-McGraw 191 16. Voyage into the Heart of Africa: Pauline Hopkins and Of One Blood / Hanna Wallinger 203 17. African Americans in Africa: Black Missionaries and the "Congo Atrocities." 1890-1910 / Katja Fullberg-Stolberg 215 18. Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy / M. Giulia Fabi 228 19. Alice Walker, Activist: Matron of FORWARD / Tobe Levin, Freifrau von Gleichen 240 20. Passages to Identity: Re-Membering the Diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff / Johanna X. K. Garvey 255 21. Return Passages: Maryse Conde Brings Tituba Back to Barbados / Robert H. McCormick, Jr. 271 22. Mediterranean Passage: The Beginnings of an African Italian Literature and the African American Example / Alessandro Portelli 282 Epilogue: "Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife" / Melba Joyce Boyd 305 Index 307 |
| Additional Authors: | Diedrich, Maria Gates, Henry Louis Pedersen, Carl |
| Notes: | LCCN: 98024622 ISBN: 0195126408 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 0195126416 (pbk. : alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 320 p. ; 23 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 39256938 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0195126408 0195126416 |