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Recharting the Black Atlantic : modern cultures, local communities, global connections / edited by Annalisa Oboe and Anna Scacchi

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Author:
Oboe, Annalisa  Search this
Scacchi, Anna  Search this
Physical description:
ix, 423 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
America
Europe
Date:
2008
Contents:
Introduction : Black bodies, practices and discourses around the Atlantic -- David Hammons's Sheep raffle 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 -- Néritude 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 -- 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 -- 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 Hopkin'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
Topic:
African diaspora  Search this
Africans--Migrations  Search this
Blacks--Intellectual life  Search this
Arts, Black  Search this
Cultural fusion and the arts  Search this
Civilization  Search this
African influences  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_969080