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 caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of 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 beginning of the Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myths, and arts, these contributions conceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American and American history, literature, and life.
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series),Maria Diedrich,Henry Louis Gates,Carl Pedersen,Oxford University Press, USA,0195126416,African American authors,American - African American & Black,American literature,Black authors,Caribbean & Latin American,Caribbean literature (English),Essays,Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General,History and criticism,Literary Collections,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Slave trade in literature,Africa,Black studies,Cultural studies,Literary Criticism & Collections / African-American & Black,Literature/English | American Literature | African American,Slavery & emancipation,Social history,USA
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