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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series).)

By Carl Pedersen , Henry Louis Gates , Maria Diedrich

Book information

Year
1999
ISBN
0195126408, 9780195126402, 9780195352139
LCC
PS153.N5 B554 1999
Open Library ID
OL364349M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (18226017 bytes)
Pages
336\337
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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