Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections »

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).

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.

List of Figures     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction: Black Bodies, Practices and Discourses around the Atlantic     1
Circumatlantic Connections, Local Lives
David Hammons's Sheep Raffle at Dak'Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude   Manthia Diawara     11
From South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of Romance   Annalisa Oboe     20
Negritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black Experimental Theatre   Judith M. Williams     45
The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black Atlantic   Nicole Waller     58
The Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Identity   Richard Follett     71
Black Man and White Ladyship (1931): A Manifesto   Renata Morresi     93
"What We All Long For": Dionne Brand's Transatlantic Metamorphoses   Franca Bernabei     109
Slavery, History, and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto Freyre   Marcus Wood     128
Modern Societies, Ancient Routes
Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora Gomes   Patrick Williams     147
Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic   Cristina Lombardi-Diop     162
Transatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-Hop   Venus Opal Reese     181
Transbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean   Dorothea Fischer-Hornung     197
Venture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the Village   Ginevra Geraci     212
The Ionic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black Britain   Itala Vivan     225
Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black Atlantic   Oyekan Owomoyela     238
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     259
W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Abroad   Anna Scacchi     282
Re-mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound   Elvira Pulitano     301
Strike a Pose: Capitalism's Black Identity   Paulla A. Ebron     319
"Nothing but a Feeling of Brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood   Simone Francescato     337
Marine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: Andre and Simone Schwarz-Bart   Antoinette Tidjani Alou      350
Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject   Paul Giles     365
Bibliography     379
Contributors     407
Index     413