Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

By: Maria Diedrich (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor), Carl Pedersen (Editor)

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Paperback | 19 August 1999

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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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Contributors	p. ix
Prologue	p. 3
The Middle Passage between History and Fiction Introductory Remarks	p. 5
Voyage through Death . .	p. 15
Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867	p. 21
The Slave Ship Dance	p. 33
The (De-)Construction of the """"Other"""" in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	p. 47
Landings	p. 57
. . . . the Poetics of Abjection in Beloved	p. 70
Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments	p. 86
. . . to Life upon These Shores	p. 97
Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment	p. 103
The Color of Money	p. 117
Judicial Nullification	p. 127
Africa in South Carolina	p. 144
References	p. 151
The Persistence of Tradition	p. 153
The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage	p. 164
In Africa, There Are No Niggers	p. 175
The Enigma of the Return	p. 183
The Hues and Uses of Liberia	p. 191
Voyage into the Heart of Africa	p. 203
African Americans in Africa	p. 215
Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic	p. 228
Alice Walker, Activist	p. 240
Passages to Identity	p. 255
Return Passages Maryse Condé Brings Tituba Back to Barbados	p. 271
Mediterranean Passage	p. 282
Epilogue: Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife	p. 305
Index	p. 307
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