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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451139303321

Titolo

Black imagination and the Middle Passage [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-282-36725-0

9786612367250

0-19-802919-5

0-19-535213-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

W.E.B. Du Bois Institute

Altri autori (Persone)

DiedrichMaria

GatesHenry Louis

PedersenCarl

Disciplina

810.9/893073

Soggetti

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

Black people in literature

Slave trade - History

Electronic books.

English-speaking countries Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibligraphical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. "Voyage through death ..." -- pt. 2. "... to life upon these shores: -- pt. 3.  "In Africa, there are no niggers".

Sommario/riassunto

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,