Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song /

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 so...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Green, Tara T. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2018]
Series:	Black performance and cultural criticism.
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. Slave trade in literature. Slavery in literature. African Americans > Intellectual life.

Table of 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.