Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

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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. Book Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Black Bodies, Practices and Discourses around the Atlantic Part I: Circumatlantic Connections, Local Lives 1 David Hammons’s Sheep Raffle at Dak’Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Léopold Sédar Senghor’s Négritude 2 From South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of Romance 3 Négritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro’s Black Experimental Theater 4 The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black Atlantic 5 The Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Identity 6 Black Man and White Ladyship (1931): A Manifesto 7 “What We All Long For”: Dionne Brand’s Transatlantic Metamorphoses 8 Slavery, History, and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto Freyre Part II: Modern Societies, Ancient Routes 9 Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora Gomes 10 Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic 11 Transatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-Hop 12 Transbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham’s and Maya Deren’s Caribbean 13 Venture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the Village 14 The Iconic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black Britain 15 Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black Atlantic 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 17 W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Abroad 18 Re-mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound 19 Strike a Pose: Capitalism’s Black Identity 20 “Nothing but a Feeling of Brotherhood”: The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One Blood 21 Marine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart 22 Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject Bibliography Contributors Index