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Author:

Green, Tara T., author.

Title:

Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song / Tara T. Green.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 180 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Slave trade in literature.
Slavery in literature.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
American literature--African American authors.
Slave trade in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Understanding the Middle Passage -- Alex Haley's roots of resistance -- Middle Passage legacies in Charles Johnson and HBO's Treme -- Calling Marie Laveau -- Legacies of the Middle Passage -- Deadly waters, Southern blues, and Richard wright -- Katrina sings the blues in Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the bones -- Telling of return and rebirth in Marshall's Praisesong for the widow -- Conclusion: Acts of redemption through forgiveness: remembering Charleston in the post-Middle Passage era.

Summary:

"Examines contemporary reimaginings of the Middle Passage by Black artists in film, literature, and song, arguing that these writers and artists recognize the Middle Passage as a historical and geographical site of trauma but are able to reimagine the Middle Passage in their work in order to resist social death"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Black performance and cultural criticism

ISBN:

0814254713
9780814254714
0814213650
9780814213650

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002653264

LCCN:

2017055652

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)