Black imagination and the Middle Passage /
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 t...
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| Other Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute (Series)
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198029199 0198029195 9780195126402 0195126408 9780195126419 0195126416 |