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2. Diáspora negra no Brasil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- São Paulo: Editora Contexto
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Portuguese translation of Linda Heywood, Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora selections (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)., 222 p., Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives.
3. Recharting the Black Atlantic: modern cultures, local communities, global connections
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Oboe,Annalisa (Editor) and Scacchi,Anna (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Routledge
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 423 p., Focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. Includes Judith M. Williams' "Néritude as performance practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black experimental theatre," Richard Follett's "The spirit of Brazil: football and the politics of Afro-Brazilian cultural identity," Dorothea Fischer-Hornung's "Transbodied/transcultured : moving spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean," Elvira Pulitano's "Re-mapping Caribbean land(sea)scapes: aquatic metaphors and transatlantic homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound," and Antoinette Tidjani Alou's "Marine origins and anti-marine tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart."