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Oxford University Press, USA (1999)
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CONTENTS
Contributors
Prologue - "The Middle Passage Blues"
James A. Emanuel
1 The Middle Passage between History and Fiction: Introductory Remarks 5
Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen
PART I "Voyage through Death..."
2 Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867: New Indications of African Origins of Slaves Arriving in the Americas
David Eltis, David Richardson, Stephen D. Behrendt
3 The Slave Ship Dance
Genevieve Fabre
4 The (De)Construction of the "Other" in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Jesus Benito, Ana Manzanas
5 Landings: Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's Poetic Renderings of the Middle Passage in Comparative Perspective
Frangoise Charras
6 The Poetics of Abjection in Beloved
Claudine Raynaud
7 Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments: A Reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River
Claude Julien
Part II "...To Life upon These Shores"
8 Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment
Cynthia S. Hamilton
9 The Color of Money: Economic Structures of Race and Gender under Slavery
Eva Boesenberg
10 Judicial Nullification: The South Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the 1850s
Manisha Sinha
11 Africa in South Carolina: Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and Other Places 144
Clara Juncker
12 "The Persistence of Tradition": The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall 153
Lene Brandum
13 The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage 164
Helene Christol
Part III "In Africa, There Are No Niggers"
14 The Enigma of the Return
Fritz Gysin
15 The Hues and Uses of Liberia
Marie Tyler-McGraw
16 Voyage into the Heart of Africa: Pauline Hopkins and Of One Blood
Hanna Wallinger
17 African Americans in Africa: Black Missionaries and the "Congo Atrocities." 1890-1910
Katja Fullberg-Stolberg
18 Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy
M. Giulia Fabi
19 Alice Walker, Activist: Matron of FORWARD 240
Tobe Levin, Freifrau von Gleichen
20 Passages to Identity: Re-Membering the Diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff
Johanna X. K. Garvey
21 Return Passages: Maryse Conde Brings Tituba Back to Barbados
Robert H. McCormick, Jr.
22 Mediterranean Passage: The Beginnings of an African Italian Literature and the African American Example
Alessandro Portelli
Epilogue - "Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife"
Melba Joyce Boyd
Index
Contributors
Prologue - "The Middle Passage Blues"
James A. Emanuel
1 The Middle Passage between History and Fiction: Introductory Remarks 5
Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen
PART I "Voyage through Death..."
2 Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867: New Indications of African Origins of Slaves Arriving in the Americas
David Eltis, David Richardson, Stephen D. Behrendt
3 The Slave Ship Dance
Genevieve Fabre
4 The (De)Construction of the "Other" in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Jesus Benito, Ana Manzanas
5 Landings: Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's Poetic Renderings of the Middle Passage in Comparative Perspective
Frangoise Charras
6 The Poetics of Abjection in Beloved
Claudine Raynaud
7 Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments: A Reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River
Claude Julien
Part II "...To Life upon These Shores"
8 Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment
Cynthia S. Hamilton
9 The Color of Money: Economic Structures of Race and Gender under Slavery
Eva Boesenberg
10 Judicial Nullification: The South Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the 1850s
Manisha Sinha
11 Africa in South Carolina: Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and Other Places 144
Clara Juncker
12 "The Persistence of Tradition": The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall 153
Lene Brandum
13 The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage 164
Helene Christol
Part III "In Africa, There Are No Niggers"
14 The Enigma of the Return
Fritz Gysin
15 The Hues and Uses of Liberia
Marie Tyler-McGraw
16 Voyage into the Heart of Africa: Pauline Hopkins and Of One Blood
Hanna Wallinger
17 African Americans in Africa: Black Missionaries and the "Congo Atrocities." 1890-1910
Katja Fullberg-Stolberg
18 Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy
M. Giulia Fabi
19 Alice Walker, Activist: Matron of FORWARD 240
Tobe Levin, Freifrau von Gleichen
20 Passages to Identity: Re-Membering the Diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff
Johanna X. K. Garvey
21 Return Passages: Maryse Conde Brings Tituba Back to Barbados
Robert H. McCormick, Jr.
22 Mediterranean Passage: The Beginnings of an African Italian Literature and the African American Example
Alessandro Portelli
Epilogue - "Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife"
Melba Joyce Boyd
Index
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