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A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging

Brand, Dionne
Hartman, Saidiya

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 1250348846
ISBN13: 9781250348845
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

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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