Challenging the Black Atlantic : The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves /
Maddox IV, John T.
Challenging the Black Atlantic : The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves / John T. Maddox IV. - 1 online resource (349 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: This Book, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Ana Maria Gonçalves -- 1. Myth, Literature, and History in Zapata -- 2. Afro-Brazil in Gonçalves and Zapata -- 3. Double Consciousness and Nation in Gilroy and Zapata -- 4. Women, Gender, and the Nuevo Muntu -- Conclusion: The Nuevo Muntu Today and Tomorrow -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
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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 by Rutgers University Press.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781684481903
10.36019/9781684481903 doi
African diaspora in literature.
Latin American literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Black Atlantic, Afrodescendente, Afro-Latin America, Afrofuturism, Muntu, Latin American Studies, Literature, Culture, African American Studies, Race, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Caribbean, Latin American, Comparative Literature, African diaspora studies, Manuel Zapata Olivella, Ana Maria Gonçalves Black Rome.
PN849.L29 / .M333 2020
860.098
Challenging the Black Atlantic : The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Gonçalves / John T. Maddox IV. - 1 online resource (349 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: This Book, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Ana Maria Gonçalves -- 1. Myth, Literature, and History in Zapata -- 2. Afro-Brazil in Gonçalves and Zapata -- 3. Double Consciousness and Nation in Gilroy and Zapata -- 4. Women, Gender, and the Nuevo Muntu -- Conclusion: The Nuevo Muntu Today and Tomorrow -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 by Rutgers University Press.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781684481903
10.36019/9781684481903 doi
African diaspora in literature.
Latin American literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Latin American literature--History and criticism.--21st century
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Black Atlantic, Afrodescendente, Afro-Latin America, Afrofuturism, Muntu, Latin American Studies, Literature, Culture, African American Studies, Race, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Caribbean, Latin American, Comparative Literature, African diaspora studies, Manuel Zapata Olivella, Ana Maria Gonçalves Black Rome.
PN849.L29 / .M333 2020
860.098