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The masters and the slaves : plantation relations and Mestizaje in American imaginaries / edited by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New directions in Latino American cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Miscegenation (Racist theory)--America.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- Cultural fusion--Caribbean Area.
- Cultural fusion.
- Slavery.
- Postcolonialism.
- Caribbean Area.
- Postcolonialism--Caribbean Area.
- Mestizaje.
- Multiracial people--America.
- Multiracial people.
- America.
- Slavery--America.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- x, 161 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- "The Masters and the Slaves" theorizes the interface of plantation relations with nationalist projects throughout the Americas. In readings that cover a wide range of genres--from essays and scientific writing to poetry, memoirs and the visual arts--this work investigates the post-slavery discourses of Brazil, the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Martinique. Indebted to Orlando Patterson's S"lavery and Social Deat"h (1982) and Paul Gilroy's "The Black Atlantic "(1993), these essays fill a void in studies of plantation power relations for their comparative, interdisciplinary approach and their investment in reading slavery through the gaze of contemporary theory, with particularly strong ties to psychoanalytic and gender studies interrogations of desire and performativity.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Who Were the Masters in the Americas? / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond 1
- 2 The Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre and the White Man's Love for Blacks / Cesar Braga-Pinto 19
- 3 Writing Brazilian Culture / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond 35
- 4 Authority's Shadowy Double: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy / Helena Holgersson-Shorter 51
- 5 Race, Nation, and the Symbolics of Servitude in Haitian Noirisme / Valerie Kaussen 67
- 6 Fanon as "Metrocolonial" Flaneur in the Caribbean Post-Plantation/Algerian Colonial City / Nalini Natarajan 89
- 7 From the Tropics: Cultural Subjectivity and Politics in Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo 103
- 8 Hybridity and Mestizaje: Sincretism or Subversive Complicity? Subalternity from the Perspective of the Coloniality of Power / Ramon Grosfoguel 115
- 9 The Rhythm of Macumba: Livio Abramo's Engagement with Afro-Brazilian Culture / Luiza Franco Moreira 131
- 10 Blood, Memory, and Nation: Massacre and Mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones / Shreerekha Subramanian 149.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1403965633
- 1403967083
- OCLC:
- 55680090
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