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Challenging the Black Atlantic: The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Goncalves
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Challenging the Black Atlantic: The New World Novels of Zapata Olivella and Goncalves

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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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Date
16 October 2020
Pages
350
ISBN
9781684481866

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.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Date
16 October 2020
Pages
350
ISBN
9781684481866