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Diasporic Womenâ€™S Writing Of The Black Atlantic - (En)Gendering Literature And Performance

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 This volume seeks to engender a more complex, gendered understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin focusing on the study of contemporary women writers and performersâ€™ literary productions and performative practices.
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Darwin In Atlantic Cultures - Evolutionary Visions Of Race, Gender, And Sexuality

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 This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution, the ape-man theory of human origins, and the principle of sexual selection -- on established transatlantic intellectual traditions and cultural practices. In doing so, it pays particular attention to how Darwinism reconfigured discourses on race, gender, and sexuality in a transnational context. Covering the period from the publication of The Origin of Species (1859) to 1933, when the Nazis (National Socialist Party) took power in Germany, the essays demonstrate the dissemination of Darwinian thought in the Western world in an unprecedented commerce of ideas not seen since the Protestant Reformation. Learned societies, literary groups, lyceums, and churches among other sites for public discourse sponsored lectures on the implications of Darwin’s theory of evolution for understanding the very ontological codes by which individuals ordered and made sense of their lives. Collectively, these gatherings reflected and constituted what the contributing scholars to this volume view as the discursive power of the cultural politics of Darwinism.
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Archives Of The Black Atlantic - Reading Between Literature And History

by Wendy W. Walters

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 Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an interdisciplinary context, to examine the multiple archives that have produced our historical consciousness. In the history of African diaspora literature, black writers and intellectuals have led the way for an analysis of the archive, querying dominant archives and revising the ways black people have been represented in the legal and hegemonic discourses of the west. Their work in genres as diverse as autobiography, essay, bibliography, poetry, and the novel attests to the centrality of this critique in black intellectual culture. Through literary engagement with the archives of the slave trader, colonizer, and courtroom, creative writers teach us to read the archives of history anew, probing between the documents for stories left untold, questions left unanswered, and freedoms enacted against all odds. Opening new perspectives on Atlantic history and culture, Walters generates a dialogue between what was and what might have been. Ultimately, Walters argues that references to archival documents in black historical literature introduce a new methodology for studying both the archive and literature itself, engaging in a transnational and interdisciplinary reading that exposes the instability of the archive''s truth claim and highlights rebellious possibility.
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Defining The Atlantic Community - Culture, Intellectuals, And Policies In The Mid-Twentieth Century

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 In this volume, essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic open new perspectives on the construction of the "Atlantic community" during World War II and the early Cold War years. Based on original approaches bringing together diplomatic history and the history of culture and ideas, the book shows how atlantism came to provide a solid ideological foundation for the security community of North American and European nations which took shape in the 1940s. The idea of a transatlantic community based on shared histories, values, and political and economic institutions was instrumental to the creation of the Atlantic Alliance, and partly accounts for the continuing existence of the Atlantic partnership after the Cold War. At the same time, this study breaks new ground by arguing that the emergence of the idea of "Atlantic community" also reflected deeper trends in transatlantic relations; in fact, it was the outcome of the re-definition of "the West" due to the rise of the US and the decline of Europe in the international arena during the first half of the Twentieth Century.
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Recharting The Black Atlantic - Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

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 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.
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Theorizing A Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary - Sugar And Obeah

by Keith Sandiford

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 This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on Richard Ligon’s History of Barbados (1657) and Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis’ Journal of a West India Proprietor (1834), the study identifies specific myths and belief systems surrounding sugar and obeah as each of these came to stand for concepts of order and counterorder, and to figure the material and symbolic power of masters and slaves respectively. Rooting the imaginary in indigenous Caribbean myths, the study adopts the pre-Columbian origins of the imaginary ascribed by Wilson Harris to a cross cultural bridge or arc, and derives the mythic origins for the centrality of sugar in the imaginary’s constitution from Kamau Brathwaite. The book’s central organizing principle is an oppositional one, grounded on the order/counterorder binary model of the imaginary formulated by the philosopher-social theorist Cornelius Castoriadis. The study breaks new ground by reading Ligon’s History and Lewis’ Journal through the lens of the slaves’ imaginaries of hidden knowledge. By redefining Lewis’ subjectivity through his poem’s most potent counterordering symbol, the demon-king, this book advances recent scholarly interest in Jamaica’s legendary Three Fingered Jack.
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Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions - Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, And Nalo Hopkinson

by Ingrid Thaler

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 Thaler argues that the recent growth of speculative fictions by Black writers has brought forth a genre of its own called 'Black Atlantic Speculative Fiction'. In this volume Thaler looks at contemporary novels by female authors of speculative fiction.
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Diasporic Women'S Writing Of The Black Atlantic - (En)Gendering Literature And Performance

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 This volume seeks to engender a more complex, gendered understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin focusing on the study of contemporary women writers and performersâ€™ literary productions and performative practices.
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Diasporic Womenâ€™S Writing Of The Black Atlantic - (En)Gendering Literature And Performance

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 This volume seeks to engender a more complex, gendered understanding of the scattered geographies of the African diaspora in the Atlantic basin focusing on the study of contemporary women writers and performersâ€™ literary productions and performative practices.
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Recharting The Black Atlantic - Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

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 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.
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Theorizing A Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary - Sugar And Obeah

by Keith (Louisiana State University, Usa) Sandiford

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 This book theorizes a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary from specific belief systems related to sugar and obeah. The author locates the archives of the groups' cultural knowledge and social power.
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Defining The Atlantic Community - Culture, Intellectuals, And Policies In The Mid-Twentieth Century

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 Includes the essays that open fresh perspectives on the construction of the 'Atlantic community' during World War II and the early Cold War years. This book shows how atlantism came to provide an ideological foundation for the security community of North American and European nations which took shape in the 1940s.
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Darwin In Atlantic Cultures - Evolutionary Visions Of Race, Gender, And Sexuality

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 Examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. This book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism - such as the theory of evolution - on established transatlantic intellectual traditions and cultural practices.
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Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions - Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, And Nalo Hopkinson

by Ingrid (University Of Gottingen, Germany) Thaler

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 Analyzes fictions by Octavia E Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson as in-between color-coded literary and cultural traditions by paying particular attention to concepts of literary history and time as well as postcolonial notions of hybridity and mimicry, race, and identity.
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Archives Of The Black Atlantic - Reading Between Literature And History

by Wendy W. (Emerson College, Us) Walters

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Archives Of The Black Atlantic - Reading Between Literature And History

by Wendy W. (Emerson College, Us) Walters

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Recharting The Black Atlantic - Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

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 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.

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