the slave ship — from Paul Gilroy: demonstrates the position of Black people between two (or more) lands, identities, cultures, etc. which is unable to be defined by borders; a chronotope of the Black Atlantic experience; a liminal space where modernity is forged, where Black life is both erased and foundational; the womb of the Black Atlantic's cultural forms (e.g., music, oral history, spirituals, resistance), diasporic traditions that transcend national borders; a symbol of motion, destabilizing the idea of "nation" as the only container of cultural identity










