Ruta de esclavos

John Edgar Wideman calls the path that begins on the Atlantic slave ships and ends, even today, in the bodies and memories of their descendants, the "Slave Route". In this unclassifiable book —somewhere between novel, memoir, and essay— he travels that invisible road where the violence of slavery, contemporary racism, and the intimate wounds of a family intersect. From an African American missionary in the Congo to a brother released from prison after forty-four years, from train stations to the waters of the Atlantic, Slave Route traces a map of forced journeys and impossible returns. With radical and musical prose, Wideman transforms the history of slavery and its aftermath into a fierce meditation on what it means to live, write, and move forward when the past never ceases to speak.