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

Author: Green, Tara T.
Published: Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date: �2018
Physical Description: x, 180 pages ; 24 cm.

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Black performance and cultural criticism

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"--

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN

9780814213650 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0814213650 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780814254714 paperback ; alkaline paper
0814254713 paperback ; alkaline paper

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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