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| List of Figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Black Bodies, Practices and Discourses around the Atlantic | |
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| Circumatlantic Connections, Local Lives | |
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| David Hammons's Sheep Raffle at Dak'Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Leopold Sedar Senghor's Negritude | |
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| From South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of Romance | |
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| Negritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black Experimental Theatre | |
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| The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black Atlantic | |
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| The Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Identity | |
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| Black Man and White Ladyship (1931): A Manifesto | |
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| "What We All Long For": Dionne Brand's Transatlantic Metamorphoses | |
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| Slavery, History, and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto Freyre | |
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| Modern Societies, Ancient Routes | |
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| Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora Gomes | |
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| Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic | |
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| Transatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-Hop | |
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| Transbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean | |
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| Venture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the Village | |
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| The Ionic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black Britain | |
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| Lost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black Atlantic | |
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| Black Bodies, Global Voices | |
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| I Sing the Black Body Electric: Transnationalism and the Black Body in Walt Whitman, Alain Locke, and Paul Robeson | |
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| W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual Abroad | |
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| Re-mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic Sound | |
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| Strike a Pose: Capitalism's Black Identity | |
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| "Nothing but a Feeling of Brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins's Of One Blood | |
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| Marine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: Andre and Simone Schwarz-Bart | |
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| Narratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |