Challenging the Black Atlantic
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Challenging the Black Atlantic

The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves

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Challenging the Black Atlantic

The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves

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The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois's double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim-led revolt in Brazil's "Black Rome." These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015-2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility.Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide byRutgers University Press.

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Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9781684481880
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction: This Book, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Ana Maria Gonçalves
  6. 1. Myth, Literature, and History in Zapata
  7. 2. Afro-Brazil in Gonçalves and Zapata
  8. 3. Double Consciousness and Nation in Gilroy and Zapata
  9. 4. Women, Gender, and the Nuevo Muntu
  10. Conclusion: The Nuevo Muntu Today and Tomorrow
  11. Acknowledgments
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index
  15. About the Author