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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage - The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series
Maria Diedrich
Black Imagination and the Middle Passage - The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series
Maria Diedrich
This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey, and on the continent and eventual return. 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 time ofthe Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.
304 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | August 5, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780195126402 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 229 × 152 × 22 mm · 667 g |
Editor | Diedrich, Maria (Chair of American Studies, Chair of American Studies, University of Muenster) |
Editor | Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (W. E. B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, W. E. B. DuBois Professor of Humanities, Harvard University) |
Editor | Pedersen, Carl (Associate Professor of American Studies, Associate Professor of American Studies, Odense University, Denmark) |
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