Black imagination and the Middle Passage

"The Middle Passage Blues" / James A. Emanuel

The Middle Passage between history and fiction : introductory remarks / Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Carl Pedersen

Patterns in the transatlantic slave trade, 1662-1867 : new indications of African origins of slaves arriving in the Americas / David Eltis, David Richardson, Stephen D. Behrendt

The slave ship dance / Geneviève Fabre

The (de)construction of the "other" in The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano / Jesús Benito, Ana Manzanas

Landings : Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's poetic renderings of the Middle Passage in comparative perspective / Françoise Charras

The poetics of abjection in Beloved / Claudine Raynaud

Surviving through a pattern of timeless moments : a reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river / Claude Julien

Dislocation, violence, and the language of sentiment / Cynthia S. Hamilton

The color of money : economic structures of race and gender under slavery / Eva Boesenberg

Judicial nullification : the South Carolinian movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s / Manisha Sinha

Africa in South Carolina : Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon swamp and other places / Clara Juncker.

"The persistence of tradition" : the retelling of Sea Islands culture in works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall / Lene Brøndum

The African American concept of the fantastic as Middle Passage / Hélène Christol

The enigma of the return / Fritz Gysin

The hues and uses of Liberia / Marie Tyler-McGraw

Voyage into the heart of Africa : Pauline Hopkins and Of one blood / Hanna Wallinger

African Americans in Africa : Black missionaries and the "Congo atrocities," 1890-1910 / Katja Füllberg-Stolberg

Sexual violence and the Black Atlantic : on Alice Walker's Possessing the secret of joy / M. Giulia Fabi

Alice Walker, activist : matron of FORWARD / Tobe Levin, Freifrau von Gleichen

Passages to identity : re-membering the diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff / Johanna X.K. Garvey

Return passages : Maryse Condé brings Tituba back to Barbados / Robert H. McCormick, Jr.

Mediterranean passage : the beginnings of an African Italian literature and the African American example / Alessandro Portelli

"Transatlantic passages revisited, Tenerife" / Melba Joyce Boyd.