A map to the door of no return: notes to belonging

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Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of "being" in the Black Diaspora.Since its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking exploration of being in the Black Diaspora, A Map to the Door of No Return, has emerged as a modern classic. The door, in Brand's iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the ancestors of the Black Diaspora departed one world for another: the place where all names were forgotten, and all beginnings recast. "This door," writes Brand, "is not mere physicality.It is a spiritual location . . .Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. There is as it says no way in; no return."Through shards of history, memoir, lyrical investigation, and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door, Brand constructs a map of this indelible region, culminating in an enduring expression, both definitive and seeking, of what it is to live, think, and create in the wake of colonization.With a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman.

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Autor: Dionne Brand

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SAIDIYA HARTMAN

(EUA, 1961) é escritora e professora da Universidade de Columbia. Sua obra se desloca entre as fronteiras da história e da imaginação para, a partir da leitura de arquivos, refletir sobre as vozes ocultas da escravidão.