Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic

Jerome Branche is Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.

Introduction Part I: Iberian Colonialism: Some Principles, People, Praxis. 1. Black Atlantic Identities and the Spanish Inquisition 2. Picturing the Afro-Hispanic Struggle for Freedom in Early Modern Spain 3. Health, Raciality and Modernity in Colonial Equatorial Guinea 4. From Lusotropicalism to Lusofonia: Brazil-Angola Cultural Exchanges under the Sign of Coloniality Part II: Postcolonial Conundrums: Dystopia, Relocation, the ‘Postcolony’ 5. Origins and Representations of the Dictatorial State in Postcolonial Africa 6. Restless Flying from Tunisia to Haiti: A Question of Locating the Tunisian Revolution in Relation to Haiti and the Postcolonial Black Atlantic 7. No Telephone to Heaven: Post-Colonial Writing, the Pursuit of Freedom and Colonialism’s Genocidal Impulse 8. The Lines of Anti-imperialism: The Circulation of Militant Cinema During the Long 1960s 9. (Re)mapping Black Paris: African Space in the Imperial Centre 10. Animal Presences: Post-Revolutionary Scenarios in Angola and Cuba 11. A Post-Colonial, National, and Post-National Discourse in Angola Poetry in the Work of Manuel Rui Part III: Identitarian Reflections 12. Citizenship and Freedom in the Black Atlantic after 1945 – Context and Challenge 13. African Diasporic Autochthonomies: A Syncretic Methodology for Liberatory Indigeneities