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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).
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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