Trajectories of Empire

Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0460-9
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade.

The book's chapters explore what it's like to be Black today in the so-called racial democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical science in the objectification and nullification of Black female personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba; aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the discursive template was created around their social roles as enslaved or formerly enslaved people. 

Trajectories of Empire's contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction, Jerome Branche

Part 1. The Iberian Scenario
- Chapter 1. "Tracing the 'Fragmentary Facts' of a Foundational Slave Voyage," Elizabeth Wright
- Chapter 2. "'Christianos nigros:' Afro-Iberian Confraternities' Social and Cultural Roles," Miguel Valerio
- Chapter 3. "In Search of the Black Swordsman: Race and Martial Arts Discourse in Early Modern Iberia," Miguel Olmedo
- Chapter 4. "On Enslaving and Impalement: The 'Life' and Death of Chicaba, Enslaved Black Woman in Empire," Jerome Branche

Part 2. Continuing Expansionism and the Circum-Atlantic
- Chapter 5. "Facing the Enslaved: Explorations for a Transatlantic Archive," Agnes Lugo-Ortiz
- Chapter 6. "A Postcard from Wakanda to the King of Spain: The Portrait of the 'Mulatos de Esmeraldas,'" Baltasar Fra-Molinero
- Chapter 7. "A Transhistorical and Translocal View of the Luso-Brazilian Imperial/Colonial World through the Poetry of GregÓrio de Matos (1633-1696) to Domingos Caldas Barbosa (1740-1800)," Lucia Helena Costigan
- Chapter 8. "Specters of the Womb: Enslaved Women, Childbirth and Pain in Nineteenth-Century Brazil," Cassia Roth

Part 3. Afro-Latin America: Black Marginality in the New Century
- Chapter 9. "Dynamics and Racial Tensions in Twenty-First Century Post-Revolutionary Cuba," Alberto Abreu
- Chapter 10. "Senzalas e Quilombos Modernos: Evoking the Legacy of Slavery in Brazilian Hip-hop," Eliseo Jacob
- Chapter 11. "Their Bones Are Beneath Us: Tourism, Modernization, and Memory in the Gamboa Neighborhood, Rio de Janeiro," Maria Andrea de Santos Soares

Über Autor(innen)

Jerome Branche is professor of Latin American literature and cultural studies in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh.