Oceanic Memory; Afrofuturist Reimagining: Exploring Black identity as a passage through literature and state

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Oceanic Memory; Afrofuturist Reimagining: Exploring Black identity as a passage through literature and state

The Door of No Return, a powerful symbol of the Middle Passage and African diaspora, finds renewed meaning in contemporary Afrofuturist literature's engagement with oceanic spaces and historical memory. As author Dionne Brand demonstrates in A Map to the Door of No Return, this threshold represents