New Perspectives on The Black Atlantic

Bénédicte Ledent is Professor at the University of Liège (Belgium), where she teaches English language and postcolonial literature.Pilar Cuder-Domínguez is Professor of English at the University of Huelva (Spain), where she teaches British and English-Canadian Literature and Feminist Theory.

• Contents: Bénédicte Ledent/Pilar Cuder-Domínguez: Introduction – Laura Chrisman: Whose Black World Is This Anyway? Black Atlantic and Transnational Studies after The Black Atlantic – Kathleen Gyssels: The ‘barque ouverte’ (Glissant) or The Black Atlantic (Gilroy): Erasure and Errantry – Christabelle Peters: Crossing the Black Atlantic to Africa: Research on Race in ‘Race-less’ Cuba – Daria Tunca: Away from a Definition of African Literature(s) – Gary Younge: Drawing a Line between Europe and the ‘Other’ – John McLeod: Taking Shortcuts: Literary Perspectives of the ‘Black Atlantic’ – Imen Najar: Carnival and the Carnivalesque in Robert Antoni’s Carnival – Wumi Raji: Tornadoes Full of Dreams: Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic and African Literature of the Transatlantic Imagination – Eva Ulrike Pirker: A Black Atlantic Agenda: Artistic / Narrative Strategies in Caryl Phillips’s The Atlantic Sound and Isaac Julien’s Paradise Omeros – Kathleen Chater: Mapping the Black Presence in England and Wales – Mar Gallego: Teaching the Black Atlantic in Spain: Institutionalisation and European Convergence – Judith Misrahi-Barak: Teaching Caribbean and Black Atlantic Studies in France: A Few Elements of Understanding – Emad Mirmotahari: Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic in Africa’s Other Diaspora – Caryl Phillips/John Mcleod: «Who are you calling a foreigner?» – Lawrence Hill/Pilar Cuder-Domínguez: «A Person of Many Places».