Product Description

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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4032972 in Books
• Published on: 2008-01-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 424 pages

From the Back Cover

The idea of "recharting" suggested in the volume refers both to the aim of studying the specificities of black arts, histories and ideologies against the larger background of diasporic movements around the Atlantic, and to the necessity of revisioning the theoretical cartography of the "Black Atlantic." Recharting the Black Atlantic presents a plurality of voices, all aimed at disrupting the Euro-American sense of where the center lies, and explores the interplay between local and global, modernity and tradition in the circumatlantic context.

About the Author

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).

Franca Bernabei (University of Venice, Cà Foscari)

Manthia Diawara (New York University)

Paulla Ebron (Stanford University)

Dorothea Fischer-Hornung (University of Heidelberg)

Richard Follett (University of Sussex)

Simone Francescato (University of Venice, Cà Foscari)

Ginevra Geraci (University of Roma 3)

Paul Giles (University of Oxford)

Cristina Lombardi-Diop (The American University of Rome)

Renata Morresi (University of Macerata)

Annalisa Oboe (University of Padua)

Oyekan Owomoyela (University of Nebraska)

Elvira Pulitano (University of Lausanne)

Venus Opal Reese (University of Texas at Dallas)

Anna Scacchi (University of Padua)

Jeffrey Stewart (George Mason University)

Antoinette Tidjani Alou (University Adbou Moumouni de Niamey)

Itala Vivan (University of Milan)

Nicole Waller (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

Judith Williams (University of Kansas)

Patrick Williams (Nottingham Trent University)

Marcus Wood (University of Sussex)