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Book SynopsisCountering a Northern focus in much Atlantic World scholarship, this volume brings together new scholarship in comparative literary studies, cultural studies and history which explores the South Atlantic as a region, or the way the Atlantic more widely has been viewed from the Global South.
Trade Review"The Global South Atlantic is a critically important contribution to current debates and discussions toward remapping the cultural and political geographies of global literary and media production. Specifically, one could mention the changed and changing valences of terms like 'Third World,' the waning disciplinary and curricular influence of 'postcolonial,' and the disputations around questions of globalization, the undecidabilty of the parameters of the 'global South' and the continuing impact of Paul Gilroy's idea of the 'black Atlantic.' ... The argument that underwrites the project of the 'global South Atlantic' is at once incisive in its recapitulation of recent intellectual history and even prescient in its anticipation of new directions in area/cultural/regional/international studies across myriad disciplines of the humanities and social sciences." -- -Barbara Harlow University of Texas at Austin
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
“The Sea of International Politics”: Fluidity, Solvency, and Drift in the Global South Atlantic
Joseph R. Slaughter and Kerry Bystrom
Part I: South Atlantic Imperial Geographies
Chapter One
The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro
Chapter Two
A World Girded: San Simonian Space and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Latin Transatlantic
Jaime Hanneken
Chapter Three
Scheherazade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic Literature
Jason Frydman
Chapter Four
Southern By Degrees: Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Sub-Antarctic World
Isabel Hofmeyr
Part II: South Atlantic Cold War Modernities
Chapter Five
Beyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global South
Anne-Garland Mahler
Chapter Six
South Africa, Chile and the Cold War: Reading the South Atlantic in Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples
Kerry Bystrom
Chapter Seven
Islands in Distress: Making Sense of the Malvinas/Falklands War
Oscar Hemer
Chapter Eight
Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic: Gabriel García Marques and Elias Khoury
Christina E. Civantos
Chapter Nine
Marvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator-Novel of the South Atlantic
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Part III: Global South Atlantic Futures
Chapter Ten
Postwar Politics in O Heroi and Kangamba
Lanie Millar
Chapter Eleven
Adrift between Neo-liberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeida’s Eva
Luís Madureira
Chapter Twelve
A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror: Rita Indiana Hernandez Writes the Dominican Republic into the Global South Atlantic
Maja Horn
Chapter Thirteen
Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela
Waïl Hassan
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