Longing Across the Black Diaspora
Love, Being and the Door of No Return
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21665833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Walcott (0009-0009-2264-0838, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Pages | 7-13 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1206-0143 • E-ISSN: 1916-0194 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/topia-2022-0035 |
| OpenAlex | W4367850270 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
In this paper I argue that in Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand is an ethnographer of Black interiority and gives us a poetics of Black psychoanalysis rejoining our slaveness to a less alienated geo-environmental social. I argue that we might read Brand alongside Saidiya Hartman and Paule Marshall as writers coming to terms with Black being as one consecrated in disruption and producing a “tribe of the Middle Passage.” I further suggest that they do so without a demand for a common unity beyond the logic of survival, and without a demand for an official or proper name
Art · Diaspora · Ethnography · Literature · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Tribe · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society · South African History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |