{"product_id":"a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-notes-to-belonging","title":"A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNow in its first American edition, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of \"being\" in the Black Diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking exploration of 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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 1250348846\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9781250348845\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Brand, Dionne, Hartman, Saidiya\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Oct 2024)","offer_id":46081194328261,"sku":"9781250348845","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9781250348845.jpg?v=1776043873","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-notes-to-belonging","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}