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

ISBN-13: 9780367593322 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 284 str.

Jerome C. Branche

Opis

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part I: Iberian Colonialism: Some Principles, People, Praxis.  1. Black Atlantic Identities and the Spanish Inquisition  2. Picturing the Afro-Hispanic Struggle for Freedom in Early Modern Spain  3. Health, Raciality and Modernity in Colonial Equatorial Guinea  4. From Lusotropicalism to Lusofonia: Brazil-Angola Cultural Exchanges under the Sign of Coloniality  Part II: Postcolonial Conundrums: Dystopia, Relocation, the ‘Postcolony’  5. Origins and Representations of the Dictatorial State in Postcolonial Africa  6. Restless Flying from Tunisia to Haiti: A Question of Locating the Tunisian Revolution in Relation to Haiti and the Postcolonial Black Atlantic  7. No Telephone to Heaven: Post-Colonial Writing, the Pursuit of Freedom and Colonialism’s Genocidal Impulse  8. The Lines of Anti-imperialism: The Circulation of Militant Cinema During the Long 1960s  9. (Re)mapping Black Paris: African Space in the Imperial Centre  10. Animal Presences: Post-Revolutionary Scenarios in Angola and Cuba  11. A Post-Colonial, National, and Post-National Discourse in Angola Poetry in the Work of Manuel Rui  Part III: Identitarian Reflections  12. Citizenship and Freedom in the Black Atlantic after 1945 – Context and Challenge  13. African Diasporic Autochthonomies: A Syncretic Methodology for Liberatory Indigeneities

O autorze

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