Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-167) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. African American watersheds -- Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust -- Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones -- Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby -- Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora.
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