Lucia Helena Costigan – författare

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade.The book's chapters explore what it's like to be Black today in the so-called racial democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical science in the objectification and nullification of Black female personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba; aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the discursive template was created around their social roles as enslaved or formerly enslaved people.Trajectories of Empire's contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.

Trajectories of Empire extends from the beginning of the Iberian expansion of the mid-fifteenth century, through colonialism and slavery, and into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Latin American republics. Its point of departure is the question of empire and its aftermath, as reflected in the lives of contemporary Latin Americans of African descent, and of their ancestors caught up in the historical process of Iberian colonial expansion, colonization, and the Atlantic slave trade.The book's chapters explore what it's like to be Black today in the so-called racial democracies of Brazil, Colombia, and Cuba; the role of medical science in the objectification and nullification of Black female personhood during slavery in Brazil in the nineteenth century; the deployment of visual culture to support insurgency for a largely illiterate slave body again in the nineteenth century in Cuba; aspects of discourse that promoted the colonial project as evangelization, or alternately offered resistance to its racialized culture of dominance in the seventeenth century; and the experiences of the first generations of forced African migrants into Spain and Portugal in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the discursive template was created around their social roles as enslaved or formerly enslaved people. Trajectories of Empire's contributors come from the fields of literary criticism, visual culture, history, anthropology, popular culture (rap), and cultural studies. As the product of an interdisciplinary collective, this book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in Iberian or Hispanic Studies, Africana Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Transatlantic Studies, as well as the general public.

"A escolha de Silviano Santiago como integrante da série Críticas deve-se ao fato de ser ele um escritor versátil e um dos poucos intelectuais e críticos contemporâneos que buscam aproximar o Brasil dos demais países latino-americanos. Como se poderá observar através dos ensaios que compõem o presente volume, a aproximação e a integração entre latino-americanos e latino-americanistas resultam tanto do contato pessoal de Silviano Santiago com outros intelectuais e artistas do continente, quanto do impacto que suas abordagens teóricas, expressas através de sua vasta produção crítica, ensaística e ficcional, vem exercendo no meio acadêmico e artístico, dentro e fora do Brasil".Lúcia Helena Costigan e Denilson LopesColaboran: Rachel Esteves Lima | Mario Camara | Denilson Lopes | Ana Chiara | Julio Premat | Ana Kiffer | Diana Klinger | Jorge Wolff | Paloma Vidal | Evando Nascimento | Idelber Avelar | Karl Posso | Sérgio de Sá | Adalberto Muller | Raúl Rodríguez Freire | Silviano Santiago~"The choice of including Silviano Santiago as a member of Serie Críticas is due to the fact that he is a versatile writer and one of the few contemporary intellectuals and critics who seek to bring Brazil closer to other Latin American countries. As you can see through the essays that make up this volume, the rapprochement and integration between Latin Americans and Latin Americanists result both from Silviano Santiago's personal contact with other intellectuals and artists on the continent, and from the impact that his theoretical approaches, expressed through his vast critical production, essayistic and fictional, has been working in the academic and artistic environment, inside and outside Brazil".Lúcia Helena Costigan and Denilson LopesContributors: Rachel Esteves Lima | Mario Camara | Denilson Lopes | Ana Chiara | Julio Premat | Ana Kiffer | Diana Klinger | Jorge Wolff | Paloma Vidal | Evando Nascimento | Idelber Avelar | Karl Can | Sergio de Sá | Adalberto Müller | Raúl Rodríguez Freire | Silviano Santiago