Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic (Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World)

Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic offers a fresh look at the Atlantic turn in Ibero-American Studies. Taking the criticisms launched at Atlantic Studies as a starting point, contributors query and explore the viability of the Ibero-American Atlantic as a framework of research. Their essays take stock of theories, methodologies, debates and trends in recent scholarship, and set down pathways for future research. As a result, the contributions in this volume establish the historical reality of the Ibero-American Atlantic as well as its tremendous value for scholarship.Contributors are Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Harald E. Braun, David Brookshaw, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Daniela Flesler, Andrew Ginger, Eliga Gould, David Graizbord, Thomas Harrington, Luis Martín-Cabrera, José C. Moya, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Joan Ramon Resina, N. Michelle Shepherd, Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. Wray. Foreword / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra vii Introduction. The Atlantic Turn: Rethinking the Ibero-American Atlantic / Harald E. Braun and Lisa Vollendorf 1 PART ONE. DEFINING THE IBERO-AMERICAN ATLANTIC The Iberian Atlantic: Ties, Networks, and Boundaries / Francisco Bethencourt 15 Understanding the Lusophone Atlantic / David Brookshaw 37 The Iberian Atlantic, 1492–2012 / José C. Moya 51 'A Hemisphere to Itself': The American Revolution and the Entangled History of the Western Atlantic / Eliga H. Gould 75 PART TWO. EARLY MODERN EXCHANGES: IDENTITIES AND TIES (1492–1850) Gender in the Atlantic World: Women’s Writing in Iberia and Latin America / Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. Wray 99 Between Ethnicity, Commerce, Religion, and Race: The Elusive Definition of an Early Modern Jewish Atlantic / David Graizbord 117 Scientific Practices in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic / Mauricio Nieto Olarte 141 Literary Exchange in the Portuguese-Brazilian Atlantic before 1822 / Vanda Anastácio 159 PART THREE. TRANSATLANTIC MIGRATIONS: CULTURE AND HISTORY RECONSIDERED (1850 - TODAY) The Origins of Atlantic Modernism and the Spanish-Speaking World / Andrew Ginger 175 Hidden in Plain View: Catalans and the Making of Modern Uruguay / Thomas Harrington 199 Theses on the Politics of Memory across the Atlantic / Luis Martín-Cabrera 221 Domesticity, Motherhood, and Transnational Reproductive Work in Contemporary Latin American Immigration to Spain / Daniela Flesler and N. Michelle Shepherd 241 Epilogue. Transatlantic Hispanism or Ibero-Atlanticism? / Joan Ramon Resina 265 Works Cited 273 Notes on Contributors 303 Index 309 Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic offers a fresh look at the Atlantic turn in Ibero-American Studies. Taking the criticisms launched at Atlantic Studies as a starting point, contributors query and explore the viability of the Ibero-American Atlantic as a framework of research. Their essays take stock of theories, methodologies, debates and trends in recent scholarship, and set down pathways for future research. As a result, the contributions in this volume establish the historical reality of the Ibero-American Atlantic as well as its tremendous value for scholarship. Contributors are Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Harald E. Braun, David Brookshaw, Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Daniela Flesler, Andrew Ginger, Eliga Gould, David Graizbord, Thomas Harrington, Luis Martín-Cabrera, José C. Moya, Mauricio Nieto Olarte, Joan Ramon Resina, N. Michelle Shepherd, Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. Wray Theorising The Ibero-american Atlantic Offers Fresh And Challenging Perspectives On The Atlantic Turn In Hispanic And Latin American Studies. Contributors, While Mindful Of Its Limits, Explore And Establish The Viability And Value Of The Ibero-american Atlantic As A Framework Of Enquiry.