Reframing the Black Atlantic

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative.

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Aretha Phiri researches the intersectional interactions of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and sexualities in comparative, transnational and transatlantic considerations of identity and subjectivity, with a focus on African American, American and contemporary diasporic African literature. Currently on the editorial boards of Safundi and English in Africa, she has been a fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), the Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS), the National Humanities Center (NHC) and the Library of Congress (LoC).

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Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy's seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative.

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Introduction: Reframing the Black Atlantic

Aretha Phiri

1. The ruse of impurity: Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and the politics of hybridity

Marzia Milazzo

2. 'It was a departure of sorts': Glocal homes in recent short fiction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Efemia Chela, Chibundu Onuzo and Lesley Nneka ArimahCopperbelt

Jennifer Terry

3. Feeling against the plot: An African diaspora feminist politics of happiness

Samantha Pinto

4. How black is African Noir?: Defining blackness through crime fiction

Sam Naidu

5. Queering the black Atlantic: Transgender spaces in Akwaeke Emezi's writing and visual art

Rocío Cobo-Piñero

6. Oceanic bellies and liquid feminism in Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique

Polo B. Moji

7. Migrating narratives: Re-inscribing black diaspora cultures

Aretha Phiri

8. Interview: 'The elephant in the room': Talking (physics of) blackness with Michelle M. Wright

Aretha Phiri & Michelle M. Wright

Afterword: Engendering new century black transnationalisms

Laura Chrisman