Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage by Raphaël Lambert

“…Set on a slave ship in 1830, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage opposes the political model of Captain Ebenezer Falcon, who incarnates the conquering spirit and ruthless mercantile culture of the United States, to the political model of the Allmuseri, an African tribe of which forty members are shackled in the hold. …”
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Frank Wilker, Cultural Memories of Origin: Trauma, Memory and Imagery in African American Narratives of the Middle Passage by Theodora D. Patrona

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De Madagascar à Sumatra : une route négrière peu commune. Le voyage du navire Binnenwijzend de la VOC en 1732 by Rafaël Thiébaut

“…Finally this evidence gives us more unique details on the conditions of slaves during an uncommon middle passage.…”
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‘Heavy Waters’ of Punjab: A Hydro-critical Analysis of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man by Muhammad Ali

“…The study concludes that a) If Elizabeth DeLoughrey’s hydro-critical lens can aid in understanding the pain of Middle Passage victims and the defiling of the Atlantic Ocean, the same theory may help read indigenous texts to pay tribute to Pakistan’s water bodies, and b) If Atlantic modernity is metallic due to the residue it carries of British naval weaponry, then overt sexual activity taking place in Pakistan and India can be linked to the ample flesh that lies in the waters of the Subcontinent. …”
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