Recharting the Black Atlantic

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).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Black Bodies, Practices, Discourses around the Atlantic1. Circumatlantic Connections, local livesDavid Hammons’s Sheep Lottery at Dak’Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Léopold Sédar Senghor’s NégritudeManthia DiawaraFrom South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of RomanceAnnalisa OboeNégritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro’s Black Experimental TheatreJudith M. Williams The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black AtlanticNicole WallerThe Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural IdentityRichard FollettBlack Man and White Ladyship (1931): A ManifestoRenata Morresi"What We All Long For": Dionne Brand’s Transatlantic MetamorphosesFranca BernabeiSlavery, History and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto FreyreMarcus Wood2. Modern Societies, Ancient Routes Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora GomesPatrick WilliamsGhosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the AtlanticCristina Lombardi-DiopTransatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-HopVenus Opal ReeseTransbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham’s and Maya Deren’s CaribbeanDorothea Fischer-HornungVenture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the VillageGinevra GeraciThe Iconic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black BritainItala VivanLost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black AtlanticOyekan Owomoyela3. Black Bodies, Global voicesI Sing the Black Body Electric: Transnationalism and the Black Body in Walt Whitman, Alain Locke and Paul RobesonJeffrey C. Stewart W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual AbroadAnna ScacchiRe-Mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic SoundElvira PulitanoStrike a Pose: Capitalism’s Black IdentityPaulla A. Ebron"Nothing but a feeling of brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One BloodSimone FrancescatoMarine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-BartAntoinette Tidjani AlouNarratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject Paul GilesContributorsBibliographyIndex