Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections (Routledge Research in Atlantic Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415883938 ISBN 13: 9780415883931

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Annalisa Oboe teaches English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Padua, Italy. Her publications include Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa (1994) and the edited volume Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo (2003) and Approaching Sea Changes: Metamorphoses and Migrations across the Atlantic (2005).

Anna Scacchi teaches American Literature at the University of Padua. She is the author of a book on Melville’s Benito Cereno (2000), and has co-authored a book on American multilingualism (2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415883938
• ISBN 13: 9780415883931
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 438
• Editor: Oboe Annalisa, Scacchi Anna