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The Global South Atlantic (Paperback)
Kerry Bystrom, Joseph R. Slaughter; Contributions by Luis Felipe Alencastro, Jaime Hanneken, Jason Frydman, …
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R983
Discovery Miles 9 830
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Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than
to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared resistance to
them have linked Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean for over
five centuries. Yet despite the rise in transatlantic, oceanic,
hemispheric, and regional studies, and even the growing interest in
South-South connections, the South Atlantic has not yet emerged as
a site that captures the attention it deserves. The Global South
Atlantic traces literary exchanges and interlaced networks of
communication and investment-financial, political, socio-cultural,
libidinal-across and around the southern ocean. Bringing together
scholars working in a range of languages, from Spanish to Arabic,
the book shows the range of ways people, governments, political
movements, social imaginaries, cultural artefacts, goods, and
markets cross the South Atlantic, or sometimes fail to cross. As a
region made up of multiple intersecting regions, and as a vision
made up of complementary and competing visions, the South Atlantic
can only be understood comparatively. Exploring the Atlantic as an
effect of structures of power and knowledge that issue from the
Global South as much as from Europe and North America, The Global
South Atlantic helps to rebalance global literary studies by making
visible a multi-textured South Atlantic system that is neither
singular nor stable.
Between Argentines and Arabs is a groundbreaking contribution to
two growing fields: the study of immigrants and minorities in Latin
America and the study of the Arab diaspora. As a literary and
cultural study, this book examines the textual dialogue between
Argentines of European descent and Arab immigrants to Argentina
from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. Using methods drawn from
literary analysis and cultural studies, Christina Civantos shows
that the Arab presence is twofold: "the Arab" and "the Orient" are
an imagined figure and space within the texts produced by
Euro-Argentine intellectuals; and immigrants from the Arab world
are an actual community, producing their own texts within the
multiethnic Argentine nation. This book is both a literary
history--of Argentine Orientalist literature and Arab-Argentine
immigrant literature--and a critical analysis of how the formation
of identities in these two bodies of work is interconnected.
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