{"product_id":"a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-notes-to-belonging-9781250348845","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250348845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Dionne Brand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44524609994933,"sku":"9781250348845","price":16.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_21d3a4bf-e30f-4498-97f2-86c336937a70.jpg?v=1722920329","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-notes-to-belonging-9781250348845","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}