Masters and the Slaves: Plantation realtions and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Isfahani-Hammond,Alexander (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    New York: Palgrave Macmillan
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Subject Term:
    Caribbean area, Slavery, Civilization, Postcolonialism, and Racially mixed people
    Notes:
    161 p, Contents: Introduction : Who were the masters in the Americas? / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- The sugar daddy : Gilberto Freyre and the white man's love for Blacks / César Braga-Pinto -- Writing Brazilian culture / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond -- Authority's shadowy double : Thomas Jefferson and the architecture of illegitimacy / Helena Holgersson-Shorter -- Race, nation, and the symbolics of servitude in Haitian noirisme / Valerie Kaussen -- Fanon as "metrocolonial" flaneur in the Caribbean post-plantation/Algerian colonial city / Nalini Natarajan -- From the tropics : cultural subjectivity and politics in Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo -- Hybridity and mestizaje : sincretism or subversive complicity? Subalternity from the perspective of the coloniality of power / Ramón Grosfoguel -- The rhythm of Macumba : Lívio Abramo's engagement with Afro-Brazilian culture / Luiza Franco Moreira -- Blood, memory, and nation : massacre and mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Shreerekha Subramanian.

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