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I would like to call your attention to this new book edited by Paul Lovejoy, Naana Opoku-Agyemang and David V. Trotman, Africa and Trans-Atlantic Memories : Literary and Aesthetic Manifestations of Diaspora and History, Africa World Press, 2008, 468 pages. * * * Table of Contents INTRODUCTION SECTION I: THE AFRICAN VOICE IN DIASPORA Chapter 1 - Narratives of Trans-Atlantic Slavery in the Life Stories of Two Muslims Paul E. Lovejoy Chapter 2 - Memories of "Homeland:" Historical and Literary Representations of Enslavement & Acculturation in the Diaspora Walter Rucker Chapter 3 - Middle Passage Afflictions in the Work of Francisco Barrera y Domingo: Literature, Politics and Disease Manuel Barcia Chapter 4 - The Language of Slaves and Servants: African Agency and the Mobilian Trade Language in Eighteenth-Century Alabama David Wheat SECTION II: AESTHETICS AND THE PERFORMING ARTS OF DIASPORA Chapter 5 - The Representation of Slavery at Bonny and Asaba: the Traditional Visual Arts Interrogate Modern Literature Ikem Stanley Okoye Chapter 6 - Saramaka Marks of Beauty and Literary Forms: Slavery Memories of West African Yoruba Tunde M. Akinwumi Chapter 7 - Over the Rainbow: African American Stage Artists and Dreams of Home in the Early Twentieth Century Karen Sotiropoulos Chapter 8 - Making Space: Reading "Limbo" in Dancehall Performance & Spatiality Sonjah N. Stanley Niaah Chapte 9 - Exploring Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Amistad and Sankofa Samuel Ayedime Kafewo Chapter 10 - Transcending the "Dust:" African-American Filmmakers Preserving the "Glimpse of the Eternal" Foluke Ogunleye Chapter 11 - History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia Mathias Rohrig Assuncão Chapter 12 – "Oh Africa! Why don't they leave you alone?" The images of Africa in the Calypso David V. Trotman SECTION III: PEDAGOGY OF HOMECOMING Chapter 13 - The Atlantic Slave Trade in West African History Text Books Ella Keren Chapter 14 - The Atlantic Slave Trade in Local History Writing in Ouidah Robin Law Chapter 15 - Rearticulations, Reconnections and Refigurations: Writing Africa through the Americas Andrea Davis Chapter 16 - Landscapes of Memory: Representing the African Diaspora's Return "Home" Sandra L. Richards Chapter 17 - 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 Chapter 18 - Un-Imagining Africa: The Nature and Location of "Africa" in the Works of Louise Bennett Mark V. Campbell Chapter 19 - Modern African Diaspora: The Nervous Conditions of Ambiguous Adventures Chima I. Anyadike Chapter 20 - Grafting a New History: Rastafari Memory Gems Articulating a "Hermeneutics of Babylon" Jahlani Bongo-Niaah SECTION IV: IDENTITY AND MEMORY CONFRONTED Chapter 21 - Trans-Atlantic Memories: The Black Diaspora in the Poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Kofi Awoonor Mawuli Adjei Chapter 22 - The Image of the Black Soul: From the Hut Near the Congo to the Banks of the Mississippi Muyiwa Falaiye Chapter 23 - Armah's Obsessions with the "Middle Passage:" Reality and Symbols Benaouda Lebdai Chapter 24 - Hungry Ghosts and Restless Spirits: Lyric Voices of the Middle Passage Lorrie N. Smith NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX -- Ana Lucia Araujo, Ph. D. Postdoctoral Fellow, FQRSC Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples 202B Founders College York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3 -- Ana Lucia Araujo, Ph. D. Postdoctoral Fellow, FQRSC Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples 202B Founders College York University 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario Canada M3J 1P3
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