{"product_id":"caryl-phillips-the-atlantic-sound-9780099429968","title":"The Atlantic Sound","description":"'Taut fascinating and controversial. The Atlantic Sound may prove to be as influential today as Roots was a generation ago' Sunday Times\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPhilips 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.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFinally 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.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53388239962454,"sku":"9780099429968-G","price":6.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/caryl-phillips-the-atlantic-sound-9780099429968","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}