Black Imagination and the Middle Passage Book

	Contributors
	Prologue: "The Middle Passage Blues"	3
1	The Middle Passage between History and Fiction: Introductory Remarks	5
Pt. I	"Voyage through Death ..."
2	Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867: New Indications of African Origins of Slaves Arriving in the Americas	21
3	The Slave Ship Dance	33
4	The (De)Construction of the "Other" in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano	47
5	Landings: Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's Poetic Renderings of the Middle Passage in Comparative Perspective	57
6	The Poetics of Abjection in Beloved	70
7	Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments: A Reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River	86
Pt. II	"... To Life upon These Shores"
8	Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment	103
9	The Color of Money: Economic Structures of Race and Gender under Slavery	117
10	Judicial Nullification: The South Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the 1850s	127
11	Africa in South Carolina: Mamie Garvin Field's Lemon Swamp and Other Places	144
12	"The Persistence of Tradition": The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall	153
13	The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage	164
Pt. III	"In Africa, There Are No Niggers"
14	The Enigma of the Return	183
15	The Hues and Uses of Liberia	191
16	Voyage into the Heart of Africa: Pauline Hopkins and Of One Blood	203
17	African Americans in Africa: Black Missionaries and the "Congo Atrocities." 1890-1910	215
18	Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy	228
19	Alice Walker, Activist: Matron of FORWARD	240
20	Passages to Identity: Re-Membering the Diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff	255
21	Return Passages: Maryse Conde Brings Tituba Back to Barbados	271
22	Mediterranean Passage: The Beginnings of an African Italian Literature and the African American Example	282
	Epilogue: "Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife"	305
	Index	307