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The Masters and the Slaves

Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

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  1. Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: Who Were the Masters in the Americas?

    • Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre and the White Man’s Love for Blacks

    • César Braga-Pinto
    Pages 19-33

  4. Writing Brazilian Culture

    • Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond
    Pages 35-49

  5. Authority’s Shadowy Double: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy

    • Helena Holgersson-Shorter
    Pages 51-66

  6. Race, Nation, and the Symbolics of Servitude in Haitian Noirisme

    • Valerie Kaussen
    Pages 67-87

  7. Fanon as “Metrocolonial” Flaneur in the Caribbean Post-Plantation/Algerian Colonial City

    • Nalini Natarajan
    Pages 89-102

  8. From the Tropics: Cultural Subjectivity and Politics in Gilberto Freyre

    • Jossianna Arroyo
    Pages 103-114

  9. Hybridity and Mestizaje: Sincretism or Subversive Complicity? Subalternity from the Perspective of the Coloniality of Power

    • Ramón Grosfoguel
    Pages 115-129

  10. The Rhythm of Macumba: Lívio Abramo’s Engagement with Afro-Brazilian Culture

    • Luiza Franco Moreira
    Pages 131-148

  11. Blood, Memory, and Nation: Massacre and Mourning in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones

    • Shreerekha Subramanian
    Pages 149-161
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This collection presents a comparative study of the impact of slavery on the literary and cultural imagination of the Americas, and also on the impact of writing on slavery on the social legacies of slavery's history. The chapters examine the relationship of slavery and master/slave relations to nationalist projects throughout the Americas - the ways in which a history of slavery and its abolition has shaped a nation's identity and race relations within that nation. The scope of the study is unprecedented - the book ties together the entire 'Black Atlantic', including the French and Spanish Caribbean, the US, and Brazil. Through reading texts on slavery and its legacy from these countries, the volume addresses the eroticization of the plantation economy, various formations of the master/slave dialectic as it has emerged in different national contexts, the plantation as metaphor, and the relationship between texts that use cultural vs biological narratives of mestizaje (being interracial). These texts are examined with the goal of locating the origins of the different notions of race and racial orders that have arisen throughout the Americas. Isfahani-Hammond argues that without a critical revisiting of slavery and its various incarnations throughout the Americas, it is impossible to understand and rethink race relations in today's world.

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'This is a subject that has received a stunning and disappointing lack of attention, despite the fact that slavery has played such a central role in the formation of a wide variety of American nations.' - George Hardly

'Superb scholarship...a landmark work, an essential source of knowledge for those who venture into the history, culture and social life of the Afro-Atlantic world.' - Antonio Benitez-Rojo, Amherst College

'The Masters and the Slaves is a welcome contribution to Atlantic Studies, and is sure to inspire further interdisciplinary collaboration in the field.' - Danielle D. Smith, New West Indian Guide

About the authors

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Luso-Brazilian Studies. University of California, San Diego, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Masters and the Slaves

  • Book Subtitle: Plantation Relations and Mestizaje in American Imaginaries

  • Editors: Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

  • Series Title: New Directions in Latino American Cultures

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-8162-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6563-9Published: 01 January 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-6708-4Published: 01 January 2005

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-8162-2Published: 06 March 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1554-4028

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-520X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 161

  • Topics: Latin American Culture, History of the Americas, Ethnicity Studies

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