Cultures Of The Lusophone Black Atlantic (studies Of The Americas)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction: The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis....Pages 1-15 Front Matter....Pages 17-17 The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic....Pages 19-39 Kriol without Creoles: Rethinking Guinea’s Afro-Atlantic Connections (Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries)....Pages 41-73 Historical Roots of Homosexuality in the Lusophone Atlantic....Pages 75-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-97 Atlantic Microhistories: Mobility, Personal Ties, and Slaving in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil)....Pages 99-128 Colonial Aspirations: Connecting Three Points of the Portuguese Black Atlantic....Pages 129-146 Agudás from Benin: “Brazilian” Identity as a Bridge to Citizenship....Pages 147-158 Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde....Pages 159-173 African and Brazilian Altars in Lisbon—Some Considerations on the Reconfigurations of the Portuguese Religious Field....Pages 175-196 Front Matter....Pages 197-197 History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia, Brazil....Pages 199-217 The “Orisha Religion” between Syncretism and Re-Africanization....Pages 219-232 Undoing Brazil: Hybridity versus Multiculturalism....Pages 233-249 Back Matter....Pages 251-256 This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how this space is not just the result of the imposition of a Portuguese imperial project, but that it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history of the Atlantic