{"product_id":"map-door-no-return-notes-belonging-9781250348845-new","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.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PICADOR USA","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":67780356276514,"sku":"9781250348845-new","price":18.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0893\/4755\/5618\/files\/9781250348845.jpg?v=1794453883","url":"https:\/\/www.albakireads.com\/products\/map-door-no-return-notes-belonging-9781250348845-new","provider":"AlbakiReads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}