{"product_id":"the-atlantic-sound","title":"Caryl Phillips: The Atlantic Sound [2001] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Taut, fascinating and controversial. \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Sound \u003c\/i\u003emay prove to be as influential today as Roots was a generation ago' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  In \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Sound\u003c\/i\u003e Caryl Phillips explores the complex notion of what constitutes 'home'. Seen through the historical prism of the Atlantic Slave trade, he undertakes a personal quest to come to terms with the dislocation and discontinuities that a diasporan history engenders in the soul of an individual.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilips journeys from the Caribbean to Britain by banana boat, repeating a journey he made to England as a child in the 1950s. He then visits three pivotal cities: Liverpool, developed on the back of the slave trade, Elmina, on the west coast of Ghana, site of the most important slave fort in Africa; and Charleston in the American South, celebrated as the city where the Civil War began - not for being the city where fully one-third of African-Americans were landed and sold into bondage. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, Phillips journeys to Israel where he encounters a community of two thousand African-Americans, whose thirty-year sojourn in the Negev desert leaves him once again contemplating the modern condition of diasporan displacement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phillips, Caryl","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47745725170003,"sku":"XV80099429968","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/phillips-caryl-the-atlantic-sound-xv80099429968-54714867220819.jpg?v=1709285175","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-atlantic-sound","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}