"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...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 55; no. 2/3; pp. 235 - 255
Autor principal: Mallipeddi, Ramesh
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer/Fall 2014
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