Radical narratives of the Black Atlantic /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rice, Alan J., 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
Series:	Black Atlantic.
Subjects:	African Americans > Intellectual life. African Americans > History > To 1863. Africans > America > History. African diaspora. Slavery > America > History. Slave trade > America > History. American literature > African American authors. Slavery in literature. Slaves' writings, American.

Table of Contents:

Uprooted and re-routed : actual and imaginative biographies of the Black Atlantic
'I had a cork in my ass and I couldn't go down': surviving the Middle Passage - A counter-historical reading of oral narratives of the Black Atlantic
'Food for the sharks' : constructions and reconstructions of the Middle-Passage imaginary in the transatlantic economy
'Up to the highest point' : liberation and the flying symbolic in Black Atlantic culture
'Who's eating whom?' : The discourse of cannibalism in narratives of the Black and White Atlantic
Funky eruptions and chain-dancing to freedom : the implications of Toni Morrison's radical style in The bluest eye, Tar Baby and Beloved
'The dogs of Old England meet the lions of the New World' : the travels of Frederick Douglass and Paul Robeson in the Black Atlantic and the development of a 'strategic Anglophilia'
Black bodies transported across the ocean in chains : the Black Atlantic in cinema from King Kong to Amistad
From ships on the head to stone-markers on the shore : the conservation of Black Atlantic memory.