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The Atlantic Sound
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Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2001-11-01
Publication Date:
2001-11-01
Publisher:
Vintage
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
0099429969
ISBN13:
9780099429968
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
281 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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The items bear minimal signs of past use, such as light scratches or memories in the form of markings. These signs of wear give the items a charming character and tell stories of their previous owners, while not affecting their functionality.
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