A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Horn
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Cultural Strategies

This chapter considers how historically fraught Dominican-Haitian relations may be usefully approached through a Global South Atlantic framework. I analyze how the little-known performance piece and text “Sugar/Azúcal” (2003) by the Dominican writer and musician Rita Indiana Hernández (1977)—one of the most important creative and critical contemporary Dominican voices—articulates the complex South-South relation between the two nations of Hispaniola and Dominican racial beliefs through a Global South Atlantic lens. I argue that “Sugar/Azúcal” reveals some of the particularities of Atlantic history in the colonial and postcolonial South that places subjects and nations in a different, and in fact contradictory, relation to what has come to be known as Western modernity and the values attached to it. The particular ways in which the Global South Atlantic inhabits the insides and outsides of Western modernity, as Hernández’s performance piece reveals, produce distinct strategies of resistance and forms of politics that, as I show, differ from the critical-cultural strategies envisioned in Paul Gilroy’s seminal Black Atlantic.

Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
J. Bohorquez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Global South ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractThis article aims to analyse some of the multilateral flows of capital that contributed to weaving a Global South during the second half of the eighteenth century. It specifically revisits the functioning and financing of the Portuguese slave trade from a global perspective, and offers insights for assessing older frameworks that explain it, in either triangular or bilateral terms. The article argues that the Portuguese slave traffic should be liberated from the South Atlantic borders to which it has been confined. In so doing, it offers an Atlantic history in a global perspective, disclosing the connections between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Putting the financing of the slave trade into a larger global perspective helps to more accurately explain how it actually operated in terms of the organization of trade. When the financial and institutional foundations of Asian and African trade are analysed together, it becomes evident that they were part of larger networks and capital flows, both westwards and eastwards, which were not just framed imperially or locally.

The Sea of International Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Slaughter ◽  
Kerry Bystrom
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Global South ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Atlantic Rim ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

Responding to the way the Southern parts of the Atlantic have historically been obscured in conceptions of the Atlantic world and through the critical oceanic studies concepts of fluidity, solvency, and drift, this chapter serves as a critical introduction to the South Atlantic. Beginning with a rereading of the Atlantic Charter, it poses the South Atlantic both as a material geographic region (something along the lines of a South Atlantic Rim) and as a set of largely unfulfilled visions—including those of anti-imperial solidarity and resistance generated through imaginative and political engagement from different parts of the Global South with the Atlantic world. It also reflects on the conditions under which something called the “Global South Atlantic” could come into being and the modes of historical, cultural, and literary comparison by which a multilingual and multinational region might be grasped.

Atlantic Seafaring

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. M. Rodger
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
The North ◽  
Celestial Navigation ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
Two Stages ◽  
North And South ◽  
Current Systems

Without the ocean — or rather, the two oceans, the North and South Atlantic — we cannot account for many of the basic facts of Atlantic history. Only ships and seafaring made possible the construction of the Atlantic world. Two stages in the making of the Atlantic world need to be distinguished; the age of exploration, when the geography of the two oceans was yet to be determined, and the age of exploitation which followed. Besides knowledge of celestial navigation and the wind systems, there was one further key element of the Atlantic navigation system which was developed in the fifteenth century: the three-masted ship rig. Just as the wind and current systems favoured the Spaniards in the Caribbean, they favoured the Portuguese in the South Atlantic Ocean. The study of Atlantic navigation raises as many questions as it answers. It seems to account for the early success of Portugal and Spain, but also seems to make almost impossible the rise to prominence in international trade of such remote and unfavoured ports as London and Amsterdam.

The Global South Atlantic

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Felipe Alencastro ◽  
Jaime Hanneken ◽  
Jason Frydman ◽  
Isabel Hofmeyr ◽  
Anne-Garland Mahler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
South Atlantic

Femme Migritude

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (94) ◽  
pp. 67-84
Author(s):  
Vanita Reddy
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Global South ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Prose Poem ◽  
Global North ◽  
And Performance

This article examines the queer feminist Afro-Asian poetics and politics of spoken word and performance artist Shailja Patel’s 2006 onewoman show and 2010 prose poem, both titled Migritude. Patel’s migritude poetics resonates with and departs from much contemporary migritude writing, particularly with respect to the genre’s focus on a global-North-based, black Atlantic African diaspora. The article draws attention to a “brown Atlantic,” in which Africa is the site both of diaspora and of homeland. More important, it shows that Patel’s queer femininity unsettles a diasporic logic of racial exceptionalism. This logic aids and abets a (black) native/(South Asian) migrant divide in colonial and postcolonial Kenya. Patel’s femme migritude, as I call it, draws on nonequivalent histories of black and Asian racialized dispossession to construct a mode of global-South, cross-racial political relationality.

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