"Makes a compelling case for a rethinking of narrative moments including slavery, the Middle Passage, and colonization that have defined the fiction produced in a transatlantic geography. Provokes a reassessment of notions of Africa as an ur-home and figurations of nation-state. A must-read."--Maxine Lavon Montgomery, author of The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance "Shows how literary texts perform a cultural mediation of diasporic memory."--Wendy w. Walters, author of Archives of the Black Atlantic: Reading between Literature and History "Moves...