Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

by Tara T. Green

Book Overview

In Reimagining the Middle Passage: Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song, Tara T. Green turns to twentieth- and recent twenty-first-century representations of the Middle Passage created by African-descended artists and writers. Examining how these writers and performers revised and reimagined the Middle Passage in their work, Green argues that they recognized it as a historical and geographical site of trauma as well as a symbol...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814213650
• ISBN13: 9780814213650
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"