{"product_id":"a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-von-dionne-brand","title":"A Map to the Door of No Return","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e Now entering its third decade in print, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e has emerged as a modern classic, a disquisition on ‘being’ in the Black diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e “This book is a world, a triumph of art and thought, a compass for the ages.” —David Chariandy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking disquisition on being in the Black diaspora, \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new preface by the author, and a moving afterword by Saidiya Hartman. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781039005815\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eNotes to Belonging\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781039005815","offer_id":58262276636997,"sku":"9781039005815","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/90cd8127-405d-4dcc-af36-c179fc2f212d.jpg?v=1781323690","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-von-dionne-brand","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}