The Global South Atlantic

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Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic, hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as a site that captures the attention it deserves. The Global South Atlantic traces literary exchanges and interlaced networks of communication and investment―financial, political, socio-cultural, libidinal―across and around the southern ocean. Bringing together scholars working in a range of languages, from Spanish to Arabic, the book shows the range of ways people, governments, political movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, goods, and markets cross the South Atlantic, or sometimes fail to cross. As a region made up of multiple intersecting regions, and as a vision made up of complementary and competing visions, the South Atlantic can only be understood comparatively. Exploring the Atlantic as an effect of structures of power and knowledge that issue from the Global South as much as from Europe and North America, The Global South Atlantic helps to rebalance global literary studies by making visible a multi-textured South Atlantic system that is neither singular nor stable. Cover THE GLOBAL SOUTH ATLANTIC Title Copyright CONTENTS Introduction. The Sea of International Politics: Fluidity, Solvency, and Drift in the Global South Atlantic Part I SOUTH ATLANTIC IMPERIAL GEOGRAPHIES The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic A World Girded: Saint-Simonian Space and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Latin Transatlantic Scheherazade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature Southern by Degrees: Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, and the Subantarctic World Part II SOUTH ATLANTIC COLD WAR MODERNITIES Beyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South South Africa, Chile, and the Cold War: Reading the South Atlantic in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples Islands in Distress: Making Sense of the Malvinas/Falklands War Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic: Gabriel García Márquez and Elias Khoury Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator Novel of the South Atlantic Part III GLOBAL SOUTH ATLANTIC FUTURES Postwar Politics in O Herói and Kangamba Adrift Between Neoliberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeida’s Eva A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror: Rita Indiana Hernández Writes the Dominican Republic into the Global South Atlantic Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela Acknowledgments Works Cited List of Contributors Index