Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

Black Imagination and the Middle Passage
ISBN-10
0195352130
ISBN-13
9780195352139
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
1999-10-21
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
Henry Louis Gates, Maria Diedrich, Carl Pedersen

Description

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.

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