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

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Jerome C Branche, Jerome C (University of Pittsburgh Branche, Jerome C. Branche, Jerome C. (University of Pittsburgh) Branche
• Assisted by: Jerome C Branche (Editor), Jerome C. Branche (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367593322
• ISBN: 978-0-367-59332-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Africa, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Regional Geography, Slavery and abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies