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1. Archives of the Black Atlantic

   Reading Between Literature and History

   By Wendy W. Walters

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   Many African diasporic novelists and poets allude to or cite archival documents in their writings, foregrounding the elements of archival research and data in their literary texts, and revising the material remnants of the archive. This book reads black historical novels and poetry in an...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
2. Theorizing a Colonial Caribbean-Atlantic Imaginary

   Sugar and Obeah

   By Keith Sandiford

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   This book develops a theory of a Caribbean-Atlantic imaginary by exploring the ways two colonial texts represent the consciousnesses of Amerindians, Africans, and Europeans at two crucial points marking respectively the origins and demise of slavocratic systems in the West Indies. Focusing on...

   Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
3. Recharting the Black Atlantic

   Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections

   Edited by Annalisa Oboe, Anna Scacchi

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   This book 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....

   Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
4. Defining the Atlantic Community

   Culture, Intellectuals, and Policies in the Mid-Twentieth Century

   Edited by Marco Mariano

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   In this volume, essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic open new perspectives on the construction of the "Atlantic community" during World War II and the early Cold War years. Based on original approaches bringing together diplomatic history and the history of culture and ideas, the book...

   Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
5. Black Atlantic Speculative Fictions

   Octavia E. Butler, Jewelle Gomez, and Nalo Hopkinson

   By Ingrid Thaler

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   Since the 1980s, an increasing number of black writers have begun publishing speculative-fantastic fictions such as fantasy, gothic, utopian and science fiction. Writing into two literary traditions that are conventionally considered separate -- white speculative genres and black literary-cultural...

   Published March 9th 2010 by Routledge
6. Darwin in Atlantic Cultures

   Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality

   Edited by Jeannette Eileen Jones, Patrick B. Sharp

   Series: Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies

   This collection is an interdisciplinary edited volume that examines the circulation of Darwinian ideas in the Atlantic space as they impacted systems of Western thought and culture. Specifically, the book explores the influence of the principle tenets of Darwinism -- such as the theory of evolution...

   Published November 10th 2009 by Routledge