Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic [Paperback]

This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history of the Atlantic.Introduction: The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis; N.P.Naro, R.S.Roca & D.H.Treece PART I: COLONIAL FORMATIONS The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic; R.S.Roca Kriol without Creoles: Afro-Atlantic Connections in the Guinea Bissau Region, 16th to 20th Centuries; P.J.Havik Historical Roots of Homosexuality in the Lusophone Atlantic; L.Mott PART II: MIGRATIONS AND COLONIAL CULTURES Atlantic Microhistories: Mobility, Personal Ties, and Slaving in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil); R.Ferreira Colonial Aspirations: Connecting Three Points of the Lusophone Black Atlantic; N.P.Naro Agudas from Benin: The Brazilian Identity as a Bridge to Citizenship; M.Guran Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde; K.Fikes African and Brazilian Altars in Lisbon: Some Considerations on the Reconfigurations of the Portuguese Religious Field; C.Saraiva PART III: HYBRIDITY, MULTICULTURALISM, AND RACIAL POLITICS History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia, Brazil; M.Rohrig Assun??o The Orisha Religion : between Syncretism and Reafricanization; S.Capone Undoing Brazil: Hybridity Versus Multiculturalism; P.Fry

This book is a remarkable achievement. On one hand, it critically transcends the risk of parochial colonial nostalgia implicit in 'Lusophone,' as much as it overcomes the implicit Anglophone bias of 'the Black Atlantic.'On the other, the historical and anthropological processes of colonial and diasporic formations are richly analyzed as encounters, as confrontations, and as settings for cultural creation. - Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Social Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ci?ncias dolÃ{