Recharting the Black Atlantic
Title | Recharting the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Annalisa Oboe |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 438 |
Release | 2011-04-13 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135899738 |
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.
The Black Atlantic
Title | The Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Gilroy |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780860916758 |
An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.
Making the Black Atlantic
Title | Making the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | James Walvin |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2016-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1474292909 |
The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlantic than any other nation and their colonial settlements in the Caribbean and North America absorbed vast numbers of Africans. The crops produced by those slaves helped to lay the foundations for Western material well-being, and their associated cultural habits helped to shape key areas of Western sociability that survive to this day. Britain was also central in the drive to end slavery, in her own possessions and elsewhere in the world. Making the Black Atlantic presents a coherent story of Britain's role in the African diaspora, its origins, progress, and transformation.
Challenging the Black Atlantic
Title | Challenging the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | John T. Maddox IV |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2020-10-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1684481880 |
The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Beyond the Black Atlantic
Title | Beyond the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Goebel |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2006-07-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134151594 |
Exploring one of the hottest topics in humanities at the moment – diaspora – this controversial volume challenges prominent theoretical frameworks of Paul Gilroy to redefine and expand ideas of Black Atlantic.
Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic
Title | Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Rice |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2003-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780826456069 |
*Broad-based survey of trans-Atlantic black culture*Newest book in the popular Black Atlantic seriesRadical Narratives of the Black Atlantic is a multi-faceted and interdisciplinary take on trans-Atlantic black culture. Alan Rice engages fully with Paul Gilroy's paradigm of the Black Atlantic through examination of a broad array of cultural genres including music, dance, folklore and oral literature, fine art, material culture, film and literature. The aspects of black culture under discussion range from black British gravesites to sea shanties, from the novels of Toni Morrison to the paintings of the Zanzibar born black British artist Lubaina Himid and from King Kong to the travels of Frederick Douglass and Paul Robeson. The book places such figures as the African American traveller and Barbary slave narrator Robert Adams and the West Indian slave narrator Mary Prince in a Black Atlantic context that explicates them fully. A chapter on the Titanic disaster shows how diasporan Africans composed oral poems about the disaster to criticise the discriminatory practices of its owners and racial imperialism. Overall, the book argues for the crucial importance of Black Atlantic cultures in the formation of our modern world. Moreover, it argues that looking at Black culture and history through a national lens is distorting and reductive.
Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic
Title | Literature and Culture in the Black Atlantic PDF eBook |
Author | K. Campbell |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 204 |
Release | 2016-04-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137056134 |
This book extends our understanding of the black Atlantic, a term coined by Paul Gilroy to describe the political, cultural and creative interrelations among blacks living in Africa, the Americas and Europe. This study focuses on pre-colonial English literary constructions and their effects on post-Independence Caribbean literature.