The masters and the slaves : plantation relations and mestizaje in American imaginaries /

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 o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:New directions in Latino American cultures.
Temas:
Miscegenation > America.
Cultural fusion > Caribbean Area.
Postcolonialism > Caribbean Area.
Mestizaje.
Racially mixed people > America.
Slavery > America.
Indians > Mixed descent.
Métissage > Amérique.
Double appartenance (Sciences sociales) > Caraïbes (Région)
Postcolonialisme > Caraïbes (Région)
Métis > Amérique.
History > Latin America.
Ethnic studies > Latin America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Slavery.
History.
Indians > Mixed descent
Cultural fusion
Mestizaje
Miscegenation
Postcolonialism
Race relations
Racially mixed people
Slavery
Seksuele betrekkingen.
Slaven (arbeid)
Slavenhouders.
Mestiezen.
Beeldvorming.
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
America
Caribbean Area
United States
Verenigde Staten.
Caribisch gebied.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Who were the masters in the Americas? / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
  • The sugar daddy : Gilberto Freyre and the white man's love for Blacks / César Braga-Pinto
  • Writing Brazilian culture / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
  • Authority's shadowy double : Thomas Jefferson and the architecture of illegitimacy / Helena Holgersson-Shorter
  • 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 / Jossianna Arroyo
  • Hybridity and mestizaje : sincretism or subversive complicity? Subalternity from the perspective of the coloniality of power / Ramón Grosfoguel
  • The rhythm of Macumba : Lívio Abramo's engagement with Afro-Brazilian culture / Luiza Franco Moreira
  • Blood, memory, and nation : massacre and mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Shreerekha Subramanian.

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