Recharting the Black Atlantic : modern cultures, local communities, global connections / edited by Annalisa Oboe and Anna Scacchi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oboe, Annalisa.

Scacchi, Anna.

Series:

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 1.

Routledge research in Atlantic studies ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Africans--Migrations.

Africans.

Black people--Intellectual life.

Black people.

Arts, Black.

America--Civilization--African influences.

America.

Civilization.

Europe--Civilization--African influences.

Europe.

Cultural fusion and the arts.

Physical Description:

ix, 423 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2008.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Black Bodies, Practices and Discourses around the Atlantic 1

Part I Circumatlantic Connections, Local Lives

1 David Hammons's Sheep Raffle at Dak'Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude / Manthia Diawara 11

2 From South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of Romance / Annalisa Oboe 20

3 Negritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black Experimental Theatre / Judith M. Williams 45

4 The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black Atlantic / Nicole Waller 58

5 The Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Identity / Richard Follett 71

6 Black Man and White Ladyship (1931): A Manifesto / Renata Morresi 93

7 "What We All Long For": Dionne Brand's Transatlantic Metamorphoses / Franca Bernabei 109

8 Slavery, History, and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto Freyre / Marcus Wood 128

Part II Modern Societies, Ancient Routes

9 Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora Gomes / Patrick Williams 147

10 Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic / Cristina Lombardi-Diop 162

11 Transatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-Hop / Venus Opal Reese 181

12 Transbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung 197

13 Venture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the Village / Ginevra Geraci 212

14 The Ionic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black Britain / Itala Vivan 225

15 Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black Atlantic / Oyekan Owomoyela 238

Part III Black Bodies, Global Voices

16 I Sing the Black Body Electric: Transnationalism and the Black Body in Walt Whitman, Alain Locke, and Paul Robeson / Jeffrey C. Stewart 259

17 W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Abroad / Anna Scacchi 282

18 Re-mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound / Elvira Pulitano 301

19 Strike a Pose: Capitalism's Black Identity / Paulla A. Ebron 319

20 "Nothing but a Feeling of Brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood / Simone Francescato 337

21 Marine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: Andre and Simone Schwarz-Bart / Antoinette Tidjani Alou 350

22 Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject / Paul Giles 365.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-406) and index.

ISBN:

9780203929582

0203929586

0415961114

9780415961110

OCLC:

174138794

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