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.
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.
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).
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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 Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude 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 Négritude 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: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart Antoinette Tidjani Alou Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject Paul Giles Contributors Bibliography Index
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 Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude 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 Négritude 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: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart Antoinette Tidjani Alou Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject Paul Giles Contributors Bibliography Index
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