Beyond The Door Of No Return
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Beyond The Door Of No Return
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Author : David Diop
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2023-10-05
Beyond The Door Of No Return written by David Diop and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-05 with Fiction categories.
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED FICTION 'Stunningly realized... A spellbinding novel' MAAZA MENGISTE, Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Shadow King 'Diop has opened a new way of thinking about the eighteenth century and its hideous cruelties' ABDULRAZAK GURNAH, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'A compelling romantic adventure... Through an act of remembrance, Diop seeks to build a repository of lives and histories lost to the slave trade' FINANCIAL TIMES __________ The captivating new novel from David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize Paris, 1806. Michel Adanson is dying. The last word to escape his lips is a woman's name: Maram. Who was she? Why, in the course of his long life, has he never spoken of her before? As Adanson's daughter sorts through his things, she discovers a notebook. It reveals a secret history both fantastical and terrible, of his time as a young botanist travelling in Senegal. How Adanson first heard of the 'revenant': a young woman of noble birth, abducted and sold into slavery across the seas, who then did the impossible-she came back, to live in hiding. How he became obsessed with finding her, embarking on an odyssey that would lead to danger and destruction. How a man who longed to solve the mysteries of nature instead found himself faced with the uncontrollable impulses of the human heart. Tragic and tender, alive with feeling, this is a story of adventure, revenge and impossible desires, one which subverts our every expectation about who we are and who we love.
Beyond The Door Of No Return
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Author : Selene Wendt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-31
Beyond The Door Of No Return written by Selene Wendt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with categories.
Lesser-known tales of anticolonial defiance in artworks and marginal histories worldwide The artists featured in this book create compelling narratives that shed light on the entangled colonial histories that connect Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas. Collectively, these artists provide crucial insight into some of the lesser-known aspects of colonial history, such as Norwegian involvement in the transatlantic slave trade. They describe the lives of freedom fighters such as Venus Johannes, Mary Thomas, Olaudah Equiano and Anna Heegaard. By highlighting the stories of those who have been historically silenced, we encounter a more nuanced understanding of colonial history and the factors that have contributed to the continued effects of colonialism today, most evidently witnessed in the prevalence of institutional, systemic and everyday racism, poverty and forced migration. Artists include: John Akomfrah, La Vaughn Belle, Manthia Diawara, Jeannette Ehlers, Michelle Eistrup, Sasha Huber, Oceana James, Patricia Kaersenhout, Grada Kilomba, Suchitra Mattai and Alberta Whittle.
A Map To The Door Of No Return
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Author : Dionne Brand
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2012-08-07
A Map To The Door Of No Return written by Dionne Brand and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history—the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.
Beyond The Door Of No Return
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Author : David Diop
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Beyond The Door Of No Return written by David Diop and has been published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Fiction categories.
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize. Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s name: Maram. The key to this mysterious woman’s identity is Adanson’s unpublished memoir of the years he spent in Senegal, concealed in a secret compartment in a chest of drawers. Therein lies a story as fantastical as it is tragic: Maram, it turns out, is none other than the fabled revenant. A young woman of noble birth from the kingdom of Waalo, Maram was sold into slavery but managed to escape from the Island of Gorée—a major embarkation point of the transatlantic slave trade—to a small village hidden in the forest. While on a research expedition in West Africa as a young man, Adanson hears the story of the revenant and becomes obsessed with finding her. Accompanied by his guide, he ventures deep into the Senegalese bush on a journey that reveals not only the savagery of the French colonial occupation but also the unlikely transports of the human heart. Written with sensitivity and narrative flair, David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal’s oral traditions, Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order.
The Door Of No Return
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Author : Kwame Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Andersen Press Limited
Release Date : 2022-10-06
The Door Of No Return written by Kwame Alexander and has been published by Andersen Press Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The #1 New York Times bestseller 'At once vivid and simple, lyrical and surgical, expressive and exacting' Lupita Nyong'o Dreams are today’s answers for tomorrow’s questions. Eleven-year-old Kofi Offin has dreams of water, of its urgent whisper that beckons with promises and secrets. He has heard the call on the banks of Upper Kwanta, West Africa, where he lives. He loves these things above all else: his family, the fireside tales of his father’s father, a girl named Ama, and, of course, swimming. But when the unthinkable – a sudden death – occurs during a festival between rival villages, Kofi ends up in a fight for his life. What happens next will send him on a harrowing journey across land and sea, and away from everything he loves. Yet Kofi’s dreams may be the key to his freedom...
Door Of No Return
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Author : Sarah Mussi
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-10-06
Door Of No Return written by Sarah Mussi and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-06 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Zac lives with his grandfather, Pops. When Pops is killed by muggers, Zac is devastated. Dumped with foster parents, then in an orphanage, Zac stumbles from trouble to trouble, but the one thing he hangs on to is Pops' obsession with their family history and his ambition to go to Ghana in search of a ransom paid by a descendant 200 years earlier, to keep his son from slavery - a ransom stolen by British government agents at the time, which then disappeared. At least, Zac thinks, he can keep faith with Pops by continuing his quest. So Zac wangles his own way to Ghana. Alone and far from home, he discovers that Pops' death and everything since is part of a wider plan by some shadowy others, also connected to the lost ransom. In a web of intrigue, deception, betrayal, skulduggery and murder that reaches out of the past to entrap everyone in the present, Zac's quest culminates in a perilous voyage to the Door of No Return in the walls of the ancient slave fort - through which the slaves were once herded to the boats that would take them across the ocean, on a journey many of them would never survive.
Door Of No Return
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Author : Steven Barboza
language : en
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Release Date : 1994
Door Of No Return written by Steven Barboza and has been published by Dutton Juvenile this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Looks at the history of Goree Island, which was used as a holding area by slavetraders for their captives
The Door Of No Return
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Author : William St. Clair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Door Of No Return written by William St. Clair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Slave-trade categories.
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Decolonizing Heritage
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Author : Ferdinand De Jong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Decolonizing Heritage written by Ferdinand De Jong and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with History categories.
An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.
House Of Slaves And Door Of No Return
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Author : Edmund Kobina Abaka
language : en
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
Release Date : 2012
House Of Slaves And Door Of No Return written by Edmund Kobina Abaka and has been published by Africa Research and Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Castles categories.
Grim and foreboding, they dominate the skyline, personifying the slave trade in all its ramifications - brutality, estrangement, alienation and social death. The slave forts of Ghana constitute an integral part of the Atlantic slave trade, and yet they have received scant scholarly attention. House of Slaves & `Door of No Return' addresses this gap in scholarly history, focusing on the dark past of these forts as well as their modern significance.