Recharting the Black Atlantic
Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections
Published on 13. April 2011
438 pages
978-1-135-89972-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
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10 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
10 Halftones, black and white
File size
2,37 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-89972-1 (9781135899721)
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Annalisa Oboe | Anna Scacchi
Recharting the Black Atlantic
Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections
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Recharting the Black Atlantic
Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections
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Annalisa Oboe teaches English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Padua, Italy. Her publications include Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa (1994) and the edited volume Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo (2003) and Approaching Sea Changes: Metamorphoses and Migrations across the Atlantic (2005).
Anna Scacchi teaches American Literature at the University of Padua. She is the author of a book on Melville's Benito Cereno (2000), and has co-authored a book on American multilingualism (2005).
Anna Scacchi teaches American Literature at the University of Padua. She is the author of a book on Melville's Benito Cereno (2000), and has co-authored a book on American multilingualism (2005).
Content
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Black Bodies, Practices, Discourses around the Atlantic
1. Circumatlantic Connections, local lives
David Hammons's Sheep Lottery at Dak'Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude
Manthia Diawara
From South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of Romance
Annalisa Oboe
Negritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black Experimental Theatre
Judith M. Williams
The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black Atlantic
Nicole Waller
The Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Identity
Richard Follett
Black Man and White Ladyship (1931): A Manifesto
Renata Morresi
"What We All Long For": Dionne Brand's Transatlantic Metamorphoses
Franca Bernabei
Slavery, History and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto Freyre
Marcus Wood
2. Modern Societies, Ancient Routes
Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora Gomes
Patrick Williams
Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic
Cristina Lombardi-Diop
Transatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-Hop
Venus Opal Reese
Transbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
Venture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the Village
Ginevra Geraci
The Iconic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black Britain
Itala Vivan
Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black Atlantic
Oyekan Owomoyela
3. Black Bodies, Global voices
I Sing the Black Body Electric: Transnationalism and the Black Body in Walt Whitman, Alain Locke and Paul Robeson
Jeffrey C. Stewart
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Abroad
Anna Scacchi
Re-Mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound
Elvira Pulitano
Strike a Pose: Capitalism's Black Identity
Paulla A. Ebron
"Nothing but a feeling of brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood
Simone Francescato
Marine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: Andre and Simone Schwarz-Bart
Antoinette Tidjani Alou
Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject
Paul Giles
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Black Bodies, Practices, Discourses around the Atlantic
1. Circumatlantic Connections, local lives
David Hammons's Sheep Lottery at Dak'Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude
Manthia Diawara
From South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of Romance
Annalisa Oboe
Negritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black Experimental Theatre
Judith M. Williams
The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black Atlantic
Nicole Waller
The Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Identity
Richard Follett
Black Man and White Ladyship (1931): A Manifesto
Renata Morresi
"What We All Long For": Dionne Brand's Transatlantic Metamorphoses
Franca Bernabei
Slavery, History and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto Freyre
Marcus Wood
2. Modern Societies, Ancient Routes
Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora Gomes
Patrick Williams
Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic
Cristina Lombardi-Diop
Transatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-Hop
Venus Opal Reese
Transbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean
Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
Venture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the Village
Ginevra Geraci
The Iconic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black Britain
Itala Vivan
Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black Atlantic
Oyekan Owomoyela
3. Black Bodies, Global voices
I Sing the Black Body Electric: Transnationalism and the Black Body in Walt Whitman, Alain Locke and Paul Robeson
Jeffrey C. Stewart
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Abroad
Anna Scacchi
Re-Mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound
Elvira Pulitano
Strike a Pose: Capitalism's Black Identity
Paulla A. Ebron
"Nothing but a feeling of brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood
Simone Francescato
Marine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: Andre and Simone Schwarz-Bart
Antoinette Tidjani Alou
Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject
Paul Giles
Contributors
Bibliography
Index
