Description |
1 online resource (x, 161 pages) |
Series |
New directions in Latino American cultures |
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New directions in Latino American cultures.
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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 |
Summary |
The Masters and the Slaves theorizes the interface of plantation relations with nationalist projects throughout the Americas. In readings that cover a wide range of genres--from essays and scientific writing to poetry, memoirs and the visual arts--this work investigates the post-slavery discourses of Brazil, the United States, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti and Martinique. Indebted to Orlando Patterson's Slavery and Social Death (1982) and Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic (1993), these essays fill a void in studies of plantation power relations for their comparative, interdisciplinary approach and their investment in reading slavery through the gaze of contemporary theory, with particularly strong ties to psychoanalytic and gender studies interrogations of desire and performativity |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Miscegenation -- America
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Cultural fusion -- Caribbean Area
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Postcolonialism -- Caribbean Area
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Mestizaje.
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Racially mixed people -- America.
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Slavery -- America
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Indians -- Mixed descent.
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History -- Latin America.
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Ethnic studies -- Latin America.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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History.
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Indians -- Mixed descent
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Cultural fusion
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Mestizaje
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Miscegenation
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Postcolonialism
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Race relations
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Racially mixed people
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Slavery
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Seksuele betrekkingen.
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Slaven (arbeid)
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Slavenhouders.
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Mestiezen.
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Beeldvorming.
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SUBJECT |
United States -- Race relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
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Subject |
America
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Caribbean Area
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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Caribisch gebied.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra, editor.
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ISBN |
9781403981622 |
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1403981620 |
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