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Trajectories of Empire - Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Trajectories of Empire - Transhispanic Reflections on the African Diaspora (Hardcover)
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Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian
expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and
slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin
American republics. Its point of departure is the question of
empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary
Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught
up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion,
colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade. The book's chapters
explore what it's like to be Black today in the so-called racial
democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical
science in the objectification and nullification of Black female
personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the
deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely
illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba;
aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as
evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized
culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the
experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants
into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries,
as the discursive template was created around their social roles as
enslaved or formerly enslaved people. Trajectories of Empire's
contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual
culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural
studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this
book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in
Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial
Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.
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