Black Imagination and the Middle Passage

Maria Diedrich · Henry Louis Gates · Carl Pedersen

1999年10月 · Oxford University Press

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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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Maria Diedrich, born in 1950, is a professor of American studies at the University of Munster, Germany. Since 1984, she has been a Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard University.