Annalisa Oboe teaches English and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Padua, Italy. Her publications include Fiction, History and Nation in South Africa (1994) and the edited volume Mongrel Signatures: Reflections on the Work of Mudrooroo (2003) and Approaching Sea Changes: Metamorphoses and Migrations across the Atlantic (2005).Anna Scacchi teaches American Literature at the University of Padua. She is the author of a book on Melville’s Benito Cereno (2000), and has co-authored a book on American multilingualism (2005).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Black Bodies, Practices, Discourses around the Atlantic1. Circumatlantic Connections, local livesDavid Hammons’s Sheep Lottery at Dak’Art 2004: Reading Black Art through Léopold Sédar Senghor’s NégritudeManthia DiawaraFrom South Africa to Europe to North America and Back: Sol Plaatje, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Routes of RomanceAnnalisa OboeNégritude as Performance Practice: Rio de Janeiro’s Black Experimental TheatreJudith M. Williams The Book of the Dead: Inscribing Torture into the Black AtlanticNicole WallerThe Spirit of Brazil: Football and the Politics of Afro-Brazilian Cultural IdentityRichard FollettBlack Man and White Ladyship (1931): A ManifestoRenata Morresi"What We All Long For": Dionne Brand’s Transatlantic MetamorphosesFranca BernabeiSlavery, History and Satire: The Legacy of Gilberto FreyreMarcus Wood2. Modern Societies, Ancient Routes Return to the Source: Amilcar Cabral and Flora GomesPatrick WilliamsGhosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean, and the AtlanticCristina Lombardi-DiopTransatlantic Minstrelsy: Performing Survival Strategies in Slavery and Hip-HopVenus Opal ReeseTransbodied/Transcultured: Moving Spirits in Katherine Dunham’s and Maya Deren’s CaribbeanDorothea Fischer-HornungVenture Smith and James Baldwin: Two Strangers in the VillageGinevra GeraciThe Iconic Ship in the Atlantic Dialogue of Black BritainItala VivanLost in Transit: Africa in the Trench of the Black AtlanticOyekan Owomoyela3. Black Bodies, Global voicesI Sing the Black Body Electric: Transnationalism and the Black Body in Walt Whitman, Alain Locke and Paul RobesonJeffrey C. Stewart W.E.B. Du Bois and the Black Intellectual AbroadAnna ScacchiRe-Mapping Caribbean Land(Sea)scapes: Aquatic Metaphors and Transatlantic Homes in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic SoundElvira PulitanoStrike a Pose: Capitalism’s Black IdentityPaulla A. Ebron"Nothing but a feeling of brotherhood": The Interracial Question and the Return to Africa in Pauline Hopkins’s Of One BloodSimone FrancescatoMarine Origins and Anti-Marine Tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-BartAntoinette Tidjani AlouNarratives of Traversal: Jamaica Kincaid and the Erasure of the Postcolonial Subject Paul GilesContributorsBibliographyIndex