The South Atlantic, Past and Present

ISBN-13: 9781933227610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str.

Luiz Felipe De Alencastro

Opis

From 1550 until 1850 most of Brazil and Angola formed a system sustained by the slave trade and inter-colonial traffic that complemented, albeit often contradictorily, exchanges between these regions and Portugal. Merchants, militiamen, royal servants and missionaries fostered relations between Portuguese enclaves on either side of the ocean. However, these exchanges were interrupted by the end of the Brazilian slave trade in 1850. Nevertheless, after the independence of the Lusophone nations in Africa, direct communications and relationships were reestablished between the two sides of the Atlantic. In the meantime, Brazil had become the nation with the largest population of people of African descent outside of Africa. Today, an economic, linguistic and cultural network again connects different countries and peoples within the South Atlantic, and new geopolitical extensions have appeared with the creation in 2003 of IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa Forum). This latest volume of Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies explores the historical, geopolitical and cultural aspects of the South Atlantic, past and present. In addition to this thematic focus, this special issue features sections dedicated to critical essays and reviews.

Spis treści

• Editor's Note — João Cezar de Castro Rocha
• Introduction: The Ethiopic Ocean—History and Historiography, 1600 - 1975 — Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
• THE SOUTH ATLANTIC, PAST AND PRESENT
• The Dutch and the Consolidation of the Seventeenth-Century South Atlantic Complex, c. 1630 - 1654 — Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
• Brazil and the Politics of the Spanish Habsburgs in the South Atlantic, 1580 - 1640 — José Manuel Santos Pérez
• Linguistic Legacies and Postcolonial Identities in West Africa: Cape Verde, Senegal, and the Western World — Alexis Diagne Thevenod
• Germans and the South Atlantic: Political, Economic, and Military Aspects in Historical Perspective, 1507 - 1915 — Jakob Zollmann
• ESSAYS
• “Escrever é para mim trabalho braçal”: Cabral's “O cão sem plumas” and the Brazilian Consulate in Barcelona, 1947 - 1950 — Joshua A. Enslen
• Narrating the Past and Inventing the Future: Memory, History, and Narrative in Pedro Páramo and Terra Sonâmbula — Thayse Leal Lima
• Mal de Mar: A Reading of Jorge de Sena's “A Grã-Canária” in (trans-)Atlantic Transit — Rui Miranda
• “Sertão Dentro”: The Backlands in Early Modern Portuguese Writings — Victoria Saramago
• REVIEWS
• Márcio Souza on Maria José da Silveira, Pauliceia de mil dentes: All the Injustice We Need — Translated by Alexander Rezende Luz
• Tom Winterbottom on Bruno Carvalho, Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro
• Richard Simas on Patrícia Portela