The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American ImaginariesPosted in Anthologies, Arts, Books, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, History, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Slavery, United States on 2010-03-27 03:44Z by Steven |
The Masters and the Slaves: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries
Palgrave Macmillan
January 2005
176 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
Paperback ISBN: 1-4039-6708-3
Hardcover ISBN: 1-4039-6563-3
Edited by:
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond, Assistant Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature
University of California, San Diego
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.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- The Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre and the White Man’s Love for Blacks—César Braga-Pinto
- Writing Brazilian Culture—Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
- Authority’s Double Shadow: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy—Helena Holgersson
- Fixing History: Race, Nation, and the Symbolics of Servitude in Haitian Noirisme —Valerie Kaussen
- Fanon as ‘Metrocolonial’ Flaneur in the Caribbean Post-Plantation/Algerian Colonial City—Nalini Natarajan
- From the Tropics: Cultural Subjectivity and Politics in Gilberto Freyre—Jossiana Arroyo
- Hybridity and Mestizaje: Syncretism or Subversive Complicity—Ramón Grosfoguel
- Giants of Three Colors: A Writer and an Artist Imagine Racial Mixture in 1940s Brazil—Luiza Franco Moreira
- Messianic Melancholic Imagination: Imagine Community with the Dead—Shreerekha Subramanian