Water and African American memory : an ecocritical perspective

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Introduction. African American watersheds

Between breath and death: transatlantic memory in Ntozake Shange's Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo and Julie Dash's Daughters of the dust

Arteries of the nation: rivers of redemption in Toni Morrison's Beloved and Henry Dumas's Ark of bones

Wetlands, swamps, and bayous: bodies of resistance in Kasi Lemmons's Eve's bayou and Toni Morrison's Tar baby

Conclusion. Mud, blood, and the blues: Hurricane Katrina and the floodwaters of the African diaspora