“Soul to Soul”
“Soul to Soul”
Echolocating Histories of Slavery and Freedom from Ghana
Drawing on the metaphor of echo-location, this chapter considers the ‘Black Atlantic’ as constituted by the historical and memorializing narratives of the Middle Passage. The chapter discusses how Aidoo, Anyidoho and.Opoku-Agyemang engage with African Americans residing in/visiting Ghana and address traumatic legacies of slavery. The chapter compares the vision of diaspora in work by these Ghanaian writers with the documentary of Soul to Soul, a 1971 collaborative performance in Accra by Tina Turner, Roberta Flack and others, and non-fiction works by African Americans including Maya Angelou and Saidiya Hartman. This chapter considers how documentaries, sound recording/reproduction, echo, and commemorative poetry exist on a continuum that gives rise to a theory of memory and its limits when confronting historical loss.
Keywords: slavery, Ghana, echo, documentary, poetry, diaspora, Anyidoho, Opoku-Agyemang, Aidoo, tourism
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .
