Overview

The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Goncalves 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 Chango 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), Goncalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luis 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.

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Author:   John T. Maddox IV
Publisher:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9781684481873

ISBN 10:   1684481872
Pages:   350
Publication Date:   16 October 2020
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: This Book, Manuel Zapata Olivella, and Ana Maria Gonçalves a          Manuel Zapata Olivella (1920–2004) b          Zapataolivellismo i The U.S. Context ii The Latin American Context c          Ana Maria Gonçalves (b.1970) d          The Bourgeoning Criticism on Ana Maria Gonçalves e          Changó and Defeito: Summaries i Changó el gran putas (1983) ii Um defeito de cor (2006) 1          Myth, Literature, and History in Zapata a          Muntu, Nuevo Muntu, and Changó’s Curse             i Influences ii Placide Tempels and the Muntu iii The Curse b          The Origin Myth of Benkos Bioho 2          Afro-Brazil in Defeito and Changó a          Luís Gama: History, Myth, and Literature b          Luísa Mahin: From Poetry to History c          Quilombos in Changó             i Aleijadinho and Zumbi d          Quilombos and Terreiros of Defeito             i Gender and Myth in Dahomey e          Conclusion 3          Double Consciousness and Nation in Gilroy and Zapata a          The Black Atlantic and the Nuevo Muntu i The Black Atlantic: Summary ii After The Black Atlantic             iii Representative Critics of Gilroy in the Anglophone Tradition b          Du Bois in Changó i Zapata’s Du Bois ii Double Consciousness iii Music, Orality, and the Sea iv The African Diaspora is part of a New World History beyond the Nation c.         Zapata, Precursor of Today’s Latin Americanist Critics of Gilroy 4          Women, Gender, and the Nuevo Muntu a          The Black Atlantic from an Afro-Brasileira’s Point of View i. Domingos Álvares and the Black Atlantic Kingdom of Dahomey ii. Gonçalves and Antônio Olinto’s Black Atlantic iii. Luís Gama’s Brazil in the Black Atlantic b          Rape in the Novels of Zapata and Gonçalves i. Sons of God and the She-Devil ii. Mother Africa iii. Gonçalves’s Raw Realism of Rape c          Changó / Santa Bárbara and Queer Characters d          Agne Brown and the Apocalypse Conclusion: The Nuevo Muntu Today and Tomorrow a          El Putas, U.S.A. b          Nuevo Muntu History and Gonçalves’s Journalism c          Afrofuturism i Brazil ii Latinx-futurism iii Ana Maria Gonçalves Acknowledgements Bibliography

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In Challenging the Black Atlantic Maddox offers us a refreshingly provocative revision of Black Atlantic theory and African diasporic authorship across Luso-Hispanic communities. His insightful readings will further enrich our understanding of the complex and non-linear facets of African diasporic Blackness, Black Atlantic religious traditions, and Black women in impactful, new ways. John Maddox's Challenging the Black Atlantic is as monumental as the historical sagas the book studies. Masterpieces of Afro-Latin American literature, Zapata Olivella's ChangO El Gran Putas and GonCalves's Um defeito de cor deserved such a comprehensive reading: originally conceived, meticulously researched, and well written and argued, the book is an intellectually sophisticated interdisciplinary study that will certainly leave its vital mark in the field of Afro-Diaspora studies for years to come. A must read!

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JOHN T. MADDOX IV is an assistant professor of Spanish and African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

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