Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Jane.
2. Lovejoy, Paul E.
3. Trotman, David Vincent, 1946-

Description

1. vii, 477 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Africa > In literature
2. Slavery in art
3. Slave trade in literature
4. African diaspora in art
5. Slavery in literature
6. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
7. Caribbean literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
8. Black author
9. African literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism
10. African diaspora in literature

Contents

1. Narratives of trans-Atlantic slavery in the life stories of two Muslims / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Memories of "homeland" : historical and literary representations of enslavement & acculturation in the diaspora / Walter Rucker -- Middle passage afflictions in the work of Francisco Barrera y Domingo : literature, politics and disease / Manuel Barcia -- The language of slaves and servants : African agency and the Mobilian trade language in eighteenth-century Alabama / David Wheat -- The representations of slavery at Bonny and Asaba ; the traditional visual arts interrogate modern literature / Ikem Stanley Okoye -- Saramaka marks of beauty and literary forms : slavery memories of West African Yoruba / Tunde M. Akinwumi -- Over the rainbow : African America stage artists and dreams of home in the early twentieth century / Karen Sotiropoulos -- Making space : reading "limbo" in dancehall performance & spatiality / Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah -- Exploring narratives of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in Amistad and Sankofa / Samuel Ayedime Kafewo -- Transcending the "dust" : African-American filmmakers preserving the "glimpse of the eternal" / Foluke Ogunleye -- History and memory in Capoeira lyrics from Bahia / Mathias Röhrig Assunc̦ão -- "Oh Africa! Why don't they leave you alone?" The images of Africa in the Calypso / David V. Trotman -- The Atlantic slave trade in West African history text books / Ella Keren -- The Atlantic slave trade in local history writing in Ouidah / Robin Law -- Rearticulations, reconnections and refigurations : writing Africa through the Americas / Andrea Davis -- Landscapes of memory : representing the African Diaspora's return "home" / Sandra L. Richards -- A fork in the road : Ayi Kwei Armah's Osiris rising and Florence Ladd's Sarah's psalm on the subject of homecoming / Naana Opoku-Agyemang -- Un-imaging Africa : the nature and location of "Africa" in the works of Louise Bennett / Mark V. Campbell -- Modern African diaspora : the nervous conditions of ambiguous adventures / Chima I. Anyadike -- Grafting a new history : Rastafari memory gems articulating a "hermeneutics of Babylon" / Jahlani Bongo-Niaah -- Trans-Atlantic memories : the Black diaspora in the poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Kofi Awoonor / Mawuli Adjei -- The image of the Black soul : from the hut near the Congo to the banks of the Mississippi / Muyiwa Falaiye -- Armah's obsessions with the "middle passage" : reality and symbols / Benaouda Lebdai -- Hungry ghosts and restless spirits : lyric voices of the middle passage / Lorrie N. Smith.

Call number

1. Sc D 10-1256

Note

1. Book arises from a conference, Literary Manifestations of the African Diaspora, that was held at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana in 2003.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-468) and index.

Title

1. Africa and trans-Atlantic memories : literary and aesthetic manifestations of diaspora and history / edited by Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Paul E. Lovejoy, and David V. Trotman.

Imprint

1. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2008.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-468) and index.

Connect to:

1. Table of contents only

Added author

1. Opoku-Agyemang, Naana Jane.
2. Lovejoy, Paul E.
3. Trotman, David Vincent, 1946-

LCCN

1. 2008005499

ISBN

1. 1592216323 hardcover)
2. 9781592216321 hardcover)
3. 1592216331 (pbk.)
4. 9781592216338 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. Sc D 10-1256