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THE ATLANTIC SOUND
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| By: |
Caryl Phillips |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1409017982 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781409017981 |
| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2010 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic Slave trade, the author undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual. |
| Synopsis: |
In The Atlantic Sound Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic Slave trade, he undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.Philips journeys from the Caribbean to Britain by banana boat, repeating a journey he made to England as a child in the 1950s. He then visits three pivotal cities: Liverpool, developed on the back of the slave trade, Elmina, on the west coast of Ghana, site of the most important slave fort in Africa; and Charleston in the American South, celebrated as the city where the Civil War began - not for being the city where fully one-third of African-Americans were landed and sold into bondage. Finally, Phillips journeys to Israel where he encounters a community of two thousand African-Americans, whose thirty-year sojourn in the Negev desert leaves him once again contemplating the modern condition of diasporan displacement. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
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Non-returnable |
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