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A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand, Saidiya Hartman
- A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
- Dionne Brand, Saidiya Hartman
- Page: 256
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781250348845
- Publisher: Picador
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Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of “being” in the Black Diaspora. Since its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking exploration of being in the Black Diaspora, A Map to the Door of No Return, has emerged as a modern classic. The door, in Brand’s iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the ancestors of the Black Diaspora departed one world for another: the place where all names were forgotten, and all beginnings recast. “This door,” writes Brand, “is not mere physicality. It is a spiritual location . . . Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. There is as it says no way in; no return.” Through shards of history, memoir, lyrical investigation, and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door, Brand constructs a map of this indelible region, culminating in an enduring expression, both definitive and seeking, of what it is to live, think, and create in the wake of colonization. With a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman.
A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand
One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
The Door of No Return is of course no place at all but a metaphor for place. Ironically, or perhaps suitably, it is no one place but a collection of places.
A Map to the Door of No Return
Dionne Brand's groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of 'being' in the Black diaspora.
A Map to the Door of No Return
Notes to Belonging (Pre-Order, Oct 1 2024) · Publisher: Picador USA (October 01, 2024) · Language: English · Paperback: 256 pages · ISBN-13: 9781250348845 · Item
A Review of Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return
The Door of No Return is the metaphorical name for an actual place inside Elmina Castle, the first European slave-trading post in all of sub-Saharan Africa. The
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