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To join Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return is to take a journey divergent from the West's well-worn genre of the epic that fetes great white men whose great risks meet with even greater rewards. By contrast, Brand sutures her transatlantic bricolage of time and space with disruptions and displacements. Her redactions and erasures illuminate the efficacy of forgetting in a world where the colonizers have frozen the historical time of Empire in marble, granite, and bronze. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Page 46, Line 2 from Below" presents itself as a part of an ongoing African Diasporan world, map and route making. A summoning of navigational instructions along the way. In this text, the navigational directions laid out in Dionne Brand's seminal A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001) provide the space for the retelling of an unexpected encounter with name, place and memory. And while moving through the ebbs and flows of various time-spaces--Toronto, Mannheim, Elmina and Traiskirchen, a town close to the Austrian capital Vienna--memories of police violence and Black death, of resistance and imagining and ultimately of belonging wash up on its shores. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]