Contributors

Prologue "The Middle Passage Blues"

James A. Emanuel

1 The Middle Passage between History and Fiction: Introductory Remarks

Maria Diedrich

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Carl Pedersen

Part I "Voyage through Death..."

2 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

3 The Slave Ship Dance

Genevieve Fabre

4 The (De)Construction of the "Other" in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Jesus Benito

Ana Manzanas

5 Landings: Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's Poetic Renderings of the Middle Passage in Comparative Perspective

Francoise Charras

6 The Poetics of Abjection in Beloved

Claudine Raynaud

7 Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments: A Reading of Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River

Claude Julien

Part II "...To Life upon These Shores"

8 Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment

Cynthia S. Hamilton

9 The Color of Money: Economic Structures of Race and Gender under Slavery

Eva Boesenberg

10 Judicial Nullification: The South Carolinian Movement to Reopen the African Slave Trade in the 1850s

Manisha Sinha

11 Africa in South Carolina: Mamie Garvin Fields's Lemon Swamp and Other Places

Clara Juncker

12 "The Persistence of Tradition": The Retelling of Sea Islands Culture in Works by Julie Dash, Gloria Naylor, and Paule Marshall

Lene Brondum

13 The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage

Helene Christol

Part III "In Africa, There Are No Niggers"

14 The Enigma of the Return

Fritz Gysin

15 The Hues and Uses of Liberia

Marie Tyler-McGraw

16 Voyage into the Heart of Africa: Pauline Hopkins and Of One Blood

Hanna Wallinger

17 African Americans in Africa: Black Missionaries and the "Congo Atrocities." 1890-1910

Katja Fullberg-Stolberg

18 Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic: On Alice Walker's Possessing the Secret of Joy

M. Giulia Fabi

19 Alice Walker, Activist: Matron of FORWARD

Tobe Levin, Freifrau von Gleichen

20 Passages to Identity: Re-Membering the Diaspora in Marshall, Phillips, and Cliff

Johanna X.K. Garvey

21 Return Passages: Maryse Conde Brings Tituba Back to Barbados

Robert H. McCormick, Jr.

22 Mediterranean Passage: The Beginnings of an African Italian Literature and the African American Example

Alessandro Portelli

Epilogue "Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife"

Melba Joyce Boyd

Index