Reimagining the Middle Passage : Black resistance in literature, television, and song / Tara T. Green.
"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 re...
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Black performance and cultural criticism.
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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.