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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (337 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/893073
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: English-speaking countries Intellectual life
• Altri autori: DiedrichMaria GatesHenry Louis PedersenCarl
• 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Black imagination and the Middle Passage
• ISBN: 0-19-772328-4; 1-282-36725-0; 9786612367250; 0-19-802919-5; 0-19-535213-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777318903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)