Branche Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-66780-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery.

The contributors explore the confrontation between Africa’s forced migrants and their unwelcoming new environments, in order to highlight the unique individual experiences of survival and assimilation that characterized Atlantic slavery. As they focus on the African or Afro-diasporan populations under study, the chapters gauge the degree to which formal independence, coming out of a variety of practices of opposition and resistance, lasting centuries in some cases, has translated into freedom, security, and a "good life."

By foregrounding Hispanophone, Lusophone, and Francophone African and Afro-descendant concerns, over and against an often Anglo-centric focus in the field, the book brings a more representative approach to the area of diaspora or Black Atlantic studies, offering a more complete appreciation of Black Atlantic cultural production across history and across linguistic barriers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Branche, Jerome C

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: Iberian Colonialism: Some Principles, People, Praxis.

1. Black Atlantic Identity and the Spanish Inquisition, Baltasar Fra Molinero

2. Picturing the Afro-Hispanic Struggle for Freedom in Early Modern Spain, Carmen Fracchia

3. Health, Raciality and Modernity in Colonial Equatorial Guinea, Benita Sampedro

4. From Lusotropicalism to Lusofonia: Brazil-Angola Cultural Exchanges under the Sign of Coloniality, Emmanuelle Santos

Part II: Postcolonial Conundrums: Dystopia, Relocation, the ‘Postcolony’

5. Origins and Representations of the Dictatorial State in Postcolonial Africa, Robert Spencer

6. Restless Flying from Tunisia to Haiti: A Question of Locating the Tunisian Revolution in Relation to Haiti and the Postcolonial Black Atlantic, Ronald AT. Judy

7. No Telephone to Heaven: Post-Colonial Writing, the Pursuit of Freedom and Colonialism’s Genocidal Impulse, Luis Madureira

8. The Lines of Anti-imperialism: The Circulation of Militant Cinema During the Long 1960s, Luis Trindade

9. (Re)mapping Black Paris: African Space in the Imperial Centre, Madhu Krishnan

10. Animal Presences: Post-Revolutionary Scenarios in Angola and Cuba, Magdalena López

11. A Post-Colonial, National, and Post-National Discourse in Angola Poetry in the Work of Manuel Rui, Robert Simon

Part III: Identitarian Reflections

12. Citizenship and Freedom in the Black Atlantic after 1945 – Context and Challenge, Cary Fraser

13. African Diasporic Autochthonomies: A Syncretic Methodology for Liberatory Indigeneities, Myriam J.A. Chancy

Über Autor(innen)

Jerome Branche is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.