"A Fixed Melancholy": Migration, Memory, and the Middle Passage.
The article explores the experiences of enslaved Africans transported over the Middle Passage, with a particular focus on emotional distress characterized by nostalgia, or homesickness. According to the author, nostalgia was treated as a disease by white slave traders and physicians but can also be...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 55; no. 2/3; pp. 235 - 255 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer/Fall 2014
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| Sumario: | The article explores the experiences of enslaved Africans transported over the Middle Passage, with a particular focus on emotional distress characterized by nostalgia, or homesickness. According to the author, nostalgia was treated as a disease by white slave traders and physicians but can also be read as a means of resistance by enslaved people. The roles of nostalgia in the book "Interesting Narrative" by Olaudah Equiano and in the contemporary black diaspora are also discussed. |
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