The Masters and the Slaves : Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries.
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The Masters and the Slaves : Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries.
Yazar:
Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra.
ISBN:
9781403981622
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (176 pages)
Seri:
New Concepts in Latino American Cultures
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Who Were the Masters in the Americas? -- 2 The Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre and the White Man's Love for Blacks -- 3 Writing Brazilian Culture -- 4 Authority's Shadowy Double: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy -- 5 Race, Nation, and the Symbolics of Servitude in Haitian Noirisme -- 6 Fanon as "Metrocolonial" Flaneur in the Caribbean Post-Plantation/Algerian Colonial City -- 7 From the Tropics: Cultural Subjectivity and Politics in Gilberto Freyre -- 8 Hybridity and Mestizaje: Sincretism or Subversive Complicity? Subalternity from the Perspective of the Coloniality of Power -- 9 The Rhythm of Macumba: Lívio Abramo's Engagement with Afro-Brazilian Culture -- 10 Blood, Memory, and Nation: Massacre and Mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones.
Özet:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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