In and out of Africa : exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin-American connections / edited by Joanna Boampong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boampong, Joanna.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Africa--Relations--Spain.

Africa.

Latin America--Race relations.

Latin America.

Race relations.

Spain.

Physical Description:

vi, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.

Summary:

New areas of intellectual endeavours including the postcolonial, transatlantic, global, and cultural studies have facilitated conversations that cut across traditional academic boundaries. Indeed, aside from precipitating more stimulating intellectual dialogues, the advent of multi-disciplinarity has also enabled literary and cultural theorists, critics, students, and teachers to connect and to integrate diverse academic disciplines and schools of thought in the pursuit of a common task. Of the many areas that have benefited from this trend, it is perhaps in the realm of Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American studies that one notices a vibrant conversation that deals with the deep historical, social, economic, and political bonds that have connected and still connect Africa to the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian worlds. As these bonds acquire profound meanings in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, scholars from diverse academic backgrounds find new ways to explore these connections. It is in the spirit of this endeavour that the creative artists, scholars of cultural and literary theory and critics whose works are presented in this anthology, attempt to examine wide-ranging themes from colonization, slavery, imperialism, religion, music, and literature. Most of the essays in this collection address long-standing issues related to identity construction, linguistic legacies, religious and cultural beliefs and practices. Others confront questions of migration and immigration, configurations of female agency, and Hispanic pedagogy in Africa and elsewhere. What makes this volume unique and interesting is not only the idea of exploring, examining, and thinking the old in new ways and the new in old ways but also, advancing the conversation of the relationship between Africa and the Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American worlds through different intellectual and artistic prisms. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Validations

Chapter 1 Where do We Fit?: The Place of Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Iberian Studies in US University Curricula / Michael Ugarte Ugarte, Michael 10

Chapter 2 Kihispania: Spanish as a Foreign Language in Kenya / Javier Seirano Avilés Avilés, Javier Seirano 18

Chapter 3 Borderlands of Death: Ominous Echoes of the Berlin Conference of 1884 in African Languages / Constancio K. Nakuma Nakuma, Constancio K. 40

Part II Fictional Renderings

Chapter 4 Representing The Black "Other" in the Portuguese and Spanish Poetry of Europe, Africa and Latin-America from the 15th to the 20th Centuries / Nelson González-Ortega González-Ortega, Nelson 58

Chapter 5 Divide and Conquer: The Marginalization of the Marginalized in "Tiene la noche una raíz" and "!Jum!" by Luis Rafael Sánchez / Laura Lusardi Lusardi, Laura 86

Chapter 6 Reconfigurations of the female Protagonist in Hispanophone African Literature / Joanna Boampong Boampong, Joanna 96

Chapter 7 Out of Africa: Sliifiing Places and Faces in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative / Mario Chandler Chandler, Mario 109

Chapter 8 Shifting Landscapes, Spatiality, and Unstable Identity: Mia Couto's Terra Sonâmbida / Arthur Hughes Hughes, Arthur 119

Chapter 9 Literary Expression: Vehicle for Transferring National Feelings, Retracing Personal and National Myths / Setor Donné Novieto Novieto, Setor Donné 136

Chapter 10 Cabio Site Changól: On Severo Sarduy's Archaeology of Negritude and the Post-modem Reassessment of the Orisha Cult / J. Edgar Bauer Bauer, J. Edgar 151

Part III Cultural Underpinnings and Performance

Chapter 11 Transcultural Retellings: A Bubi Folktale from Equatorial Guinea to Canada / Dorothy Odartey-Wellington Odartey-Wellington, Dorothy 178

Chapter 12 Musical Objects and Identities in Transit within Groups in Equatorial Guinea: Musical Connections with Sierra Leone and Cuba following the Abolition of Slavery / Isabela de Aranzadi Aranzadi, Isabela de 190

Chapter 13 The Evu Belief in Today's Equatorial Guinean Society / Josep Marti Marti, Josep 216.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1443841110

9781443841115

OCLC:

810533565

Publisher Number:

99951327508