A poem with this title quotes broken lines from the hymn "Jesus Savior Pilot Me" and opens with the names "Jesus, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy."
A poem with this title quotes broken lines from the hymn "Jesus Savior Pilot Me" and opens with the names "Jesus, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy." The protagonist of a novel with this title has a mystical vision after feeding the god of the Allmuseri while aboard the Republic. That novel follows the stowaway Rutherford Calhoun, and won the 1990 National Book Award. This title is shared by a travelogue giving "Impressions of Five Societies" by V.S. Naipaul and an epic poem about Cinquez by (*) Robert Hayden. The only chapter narrated by the title character of Toni Morrison's Beloved is a stream-of-consciousness description of this historical process. A Charles Johnson novel is named for this experience, which is also described in a famous excerpt from the "Interesting Narrative" of Olaudah Equiano, which evokes "loathsome smells," "shrieks of the women," and "groans of the dying." For 10 points, name this traumatic experience often treated in African-American literature, the portion of the Triangle Trade that brought slaves to the Americas.
A poem with this title quotes broken lines from the hymn "Jesus Savior Pilot Me" and opens with the names "Jesus, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy."
The Middle Passage