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Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT and PILAR CUDER-DOMÍNGUEZ

Part I: Definitions

Whose Black World Is This Anyway? Black Atlantic


and Transnational Studies after The Black Atlantic . . . . . . 23
LAURA CHRISMAN

The ‘barque ouverte’ (Glissant) or


The Black Atlantic (Gilroy): Erasure and Errantry . . . . . . . 59
KATHLEEN GYSSELS

Crossing the Black Atlantic to Africa:


Research on Race in ‘Race-less’ Cuba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
CHRISTABELLE PETERS

Away from a Definition of African Literature(s) . . . . . . . . . 105


DARIA TUNCA

Drawing a Line between Europe and the ‘Other’ . . . . . . . . 125


GARY YOUNGE

Part II: Readings

Taking Shortcuts: Literary Perspectives


of the ‘Black Atlantic’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
JOHN MCLEOD

Carnival and the Carnivalesque


in Robert Antoni’s Carnival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
IMEN NAJAR
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Tornadoes Full of Dreams: Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic


and African Literature of the Transatlantic Imagination . . . 173
WUMI RAJI

A Black Atlantic Agenda: Artistic / Narrative Strategies


in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound
and Isaac Julien’s Paradise Omeros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
EVA ULRIKE PIRKER

Part III: Practices

Mapping the Black Presence in England and Wales . . . . . . . 219


KATHLEEN CHATER

Teaching the Black Atlantic in Spain:


Institutionalisation and European Convergence . . . . . . . . . 231
MAR GALLEGO

Teaching Caribbean and Black Atlantic Studies


in France: A Few Elements of Understanding . . . . . . . . . . . 249
JUDITH MISRAHI-BARAK

Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic in Africa’s Other Diaspora . . . 261


EMAD MIRMOTAHARI

Part IV: Dialogues

“Who are you calling a foreigner?” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275


CARYL PHILLIPS in Conversation with JOHN MCLEOD

“A Person of Many Places” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295


LAWRENCE HILL in Conversation
with PILAR CUDER-DOMÍNGUEZ

Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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