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Charting the future: Twentieth-anniversary issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
The Introduction to the special issue “Charting the Future: Twentieth-anniversary issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents” traces the first two decades of the journal’s publication. A survey of ...
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Across the Atlantic: morbidity, geography, and the eighteenth-century French Atlantic slave trade Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Elise A. Mitchell
In 1765, enslaved Africans boarded the Roi Guinguin in Badagry as part of a restitution agreement between a Nantesian slave trading company and an African ruler. These captive Africans endured trea...
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Atlantification: Facing the Atlantic from the Arctic – a provocation Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Hester Blum
Atlantic Studies now enters its third decade, and the ecological consequences of human entanglement with (or whelmedness by) the ocean will only intensify environmentally, politically, and cultural...
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Transatlantic itinerants and hustlers: Reading the ‘connected histories’ of India and Atlantic worlds in Bartholomew Burges’s A Series of Indostan Letters (1790) Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Rajender Kaur
A reading of Bartholomew Burges’ Indostan Letters (1790), a little known early transatlantic text addressed to patrons both in Britain and America, goes far in illuminating the “connected histories...
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Amphibious landings: Free people of color, food supply, and contested land tenure on the Magdalena River network (1796–1806) Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Valeria Mantilla Morales
The community of Chiriguaná sat east of the Magdalena River, Colombia’s main fluvial channel. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Chiriguaná was populated mostly by free people of color...
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A spanish colony made of foreigners: Transimperial Trinidad during the age of revolutions Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Cristina Soriano
This article analyzes the initial transformation of the island of Trinidad into a transimperial contact zone during the final decades of the Eighteenth century and how it became a particularly reve...
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Modern American Indians in (and beyond) the Deutsche Reich: (Re)Claiming Indigenous lands, nations, and futures through transatlantic Indigenous travel Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Michael P. Taylor
In 1850, Ojibwe writer and lecturer Gaagigegaabaw (George Copway) traveled through Europe en route to attend the Third World Peace Congress in Frankfurt, Germany, to represent the so-called Christi...
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Wandering books in the global Enlightenment: The life of an eighteenth-century library that crisscrossed the Atlantic Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-14 María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés
This study examines the “life” of an eighteenth-century private library that migrated from Spain to New Spain in 1765 and returned, greatly reduced, back to Europe in 1772. The collection’s owner w...
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From soldiers of fortune into heroes of liberty: The early trans-Atlantic mythologization of Tadeusz Kościuszko and Kazimierz Pułaski Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Irmina Wawrzyczek, Zbigniew Mazur
This article examines the early mythologization of two Polish volunteers who fought in the American Revolutionary War: Kazimierz Pułaski and Tadeusz Kościuszko. By analysing hitherto unexplored con...
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Scottish loyalism in the British Atlantic world Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Katie Louise McCullough, Graeme Morton
ABSTRACT This group of essays explores the ways in which Scottish loyalists shaped and contributed to the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Once thought of as a narrow and defensive conservative reaction to political change and external military threat, historians have recently recast loyalism as the embodiment of a disparate and multifaced identity embraced by those
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Continental divide: Native Americans and the Atlantic world Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Brett Rushforth
ABSTRACT This essay assesses how historians have studied the relationship between Native Americans and the Atlantic world in the early modern period. It traces the development of what the author calls a “continental divide” between scholars of Indigenous and Atlantic histories, as distinct subfields emerged from different questions, methods, archival practices, and ethical commitments. Recent scholarship
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“When I saw the skull approaching, I died”: Transatlantic communicative flows in response to racial terror in Brazil Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Daniel N. Silva
ABSTRACT This study delineates the “culture of survival,” a trope that my research group encountered during fieldwork in Rio de Janeiro favelas. For Raphael Calazans, a young Black composer, the culture of survival emerges from solidarity: in the absence of housing policy for freed slaves, people created their own neighborhoods and improvised everyday solutions. The culture of survival is a practical
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“Without the smallest recompense”: Scottish loyalist women in revolutionary North Carolina Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Kimberly B. Sherman
ABSTRACT Loyalism has a long history in the British Atlantic world, running much deeper than the years comprising the American Revolution. These stories, however, have often been pushed to the margins of our understanding of the era. In North Carolina, categorising colonial residents into the binaries of “rebel” or “loyalist” is problematic. This is further complicated by the introduction of gender
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“All grand tories:” Loyalism in the trans-Appalachian west during the revolutionary war Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Matthew C. Ward
ABSTRACT Loyalism was a potent force in the Trans-Appalachian West during the American Revolution. However, the experiences of western Loyalists differed from those elsewhere and provide a broader understanding of the forces affecting Loyalism in the British Empire. There were few reasons for western Loyalists to declare their sympathies and even fewer opportunities to seek assistance from the British
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Philistine imaginings and the naissance of a world other Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Samiha Khalil
ABSTRACT This study traces the figure of the Philistine, its symbolic afterlife, in general, and its transatlantic circulatory logics, in specific. It follows the figure's ruptures and passages since it first emerged in Late Egyptian as P-r-s-t (transliterated: Peleset) and later on in Hebrew as פלשתי (transliterated: P'lishti) to signify an ancient people dating back to the twelfth century BCE, bearing
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Inculcating loyalty in the Highlands and beyond, c.1745–1784 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Nicola Martin
ABSTRACT The Jacobite rising of 1745–1746 saw several thousand Scots rebel against the British crown. Yet it also provided opportunities for Scots to demonstrate their loyalty to the crown. After the rising was over, a brutal pacification was accompanied by significant legislative and institutional changes which sought to inculcate long-term loyalty in the Highlands. Once again, numerous Scots participated
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Loyalism, legitimism, and the neo-Jacobite challenge to the Anglo-Scottish Union Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Graeme Morton
ABSTRACT Those who continued with its cause into the late Victorian age, framed loyalism as a principled challenge to the constitutional settlement that culminated in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. The case for restoring the House of Stuart, the focal point of their efforts, had become a distinctive strand within British loyalism but in many respects remained tangential to the movement for home
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Fearful loyalty: The strategic deployment of emotion by the Cuban proslavery elite, 1830–1850 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Liana Beatrice Valerio
ABSTRACT This article presents the expression of colonial loyalty in nineteenth century Cuba as a tool mobilised by otherwise disenfranchised enslaving elites seeking to shape the island’s governance. Combined with the judicious expression of fear, this paper suggests that “fearful loyalty” was deployed to influence the Spanish colonial government on the subject of slavery. Contemporary periodicals
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“That ancient and modern wonder”: Giraffes, imperialism, and the making of the American menagerie, 1830–1840 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-07 Alexander Clayton
Throughout the 1830s, American menagerie proprietors launched a systematic campaign to capture, transport, and display the giraffe. This article draws on the records of merchants, naturalists, dipl...
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Semantic and semiotic flows: Examining variations and changes of “the N-Words” within an indexical field of dynamic meanings Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Adrienne Ronee Washington
ABSTRACT This study investigates Circum-Atlantic linguistic flows as language change and variation among the “n-words.” Language users do not experience this set of expressions identically. The words include a racial slur as well as expressions that vary in meaning and use. Applying Spears's discussion of semantic neutralization in tandem with Eckert's indexical field model, this research analyzes
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Decolonization, diversity and accountability: The role of museums in democracies of the global north Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-24 William Boelhower
Over the last twenty years, the global phenomenon of migration flows has contributed significantly to shaping the multicultural and multiethnic identity of the West's major metropolises in the Glob...
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The Glengarry Cairn and Highland loyalism in the British Atlantic world Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Katie Louise McCullough
ABSTRACT In the early 1840s, a monumental cairn was built on an island in the St Lawrence River by the Glengarry Highlanders Militia who were stationed in eastern Upper Canada and western Lower Canada during the Rebellions of 1837–1838. The cairn was officially raised to commemorate the Glengarry Highlanders’ supreme commanding officer, Sir John Colborne and to acknowledge the role the Glengarry Highlanders
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Dynamic movements, fragmented archives, and everything in between Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Alejandra Dubcovsky
ABSTRACT This is an epilogue to the collection of essays devoted to Indigenous Americans and the Atlantic World. It focuses on two core arguments found in the papers featured in the forum. The first is the extraordinary mobility of Native people in the Atlantic world – Native people and stories span a vast geographical and temporal span. The second is the bare and scattered archival fragments that
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Women’s Protestant foreign mission work and settler state formation in Canada: A re-examination of the Scottish diaspora Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Louise Swaffer
ABSTRACT Renewed interest in empire and colonialism has transformed our understanding of transnational networks and processes of exchange, entanglement, and globalisation. However, colonial entanglement still conceals some significant players in globalising cultures. The Protestant women’s foreign missionary movement pioneered transnational activism by interweaving women’s empowerment in “foreign”
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Afterlives in captivity: Indigeneity and penal deportation in southeastern South America Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Jeffrey Erbig
ABSTRACT This study analyzes intersections between penal deportation and Indigenous captivity in southeastern South America during the eighteenth century. Via records on Lincompani, a cacique taken captive in the southern borderlands of Buenos Aires and exiled to the Malvinas Islands alongside other prison laborers (presidiarios), it highlights the scale of penal deportation within the early Americas
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Beyond the (Holy) Shroud: A glimpse into Afro-Catholicism during the Haitian Revolution Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Miriam Franchina
ABSTRACT This paper explores how Africans and Afro-Creoles used discourses shaped by Catholicism during the Haitian Revolution both to fight the prospect of re-enslavement by the French and to pursue alternative notions of freedom to those proposed by Toussaint Louverture. Specifically, it examines the appeals for Sunday rest and free days; and the use of protective amulets in pursuit of divinely-granted
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Indigenous war captives and mobility-oriented punishments: An Atlantic-Mediterranean world perspective Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Nancy E. van Deusen
ABSTRACT This study explores two well-known case studies involving the removal of Indigenous war captives from their places of origin to fortifications or to Mediterranean galley ships to do forced labor. I draw on known scholarship on Indigenous war captives in New England and New France during the seventeenth century to consider the local conditions in Europe and North America that created the possibility
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“Presumtious enough to tell us that it is a fine country”: Competing visions during the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek exploring expedition of 1828 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Cameron B. Strang
ABSTRACT In 1828, delegates from the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek nations set out with a cohort of white guides to explore potential new homelands west of the Mississippi River. But since the Indigenous explorers and their white conductors had opposing goals – resisting and encouraging removal, respectively – the Native delegates found themselves competing against, rather than benefiting from, their
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“By custom and devotion to the Passion of Christ our lord”: Medieval emotion, Enlightenment reason, and Nahua performance Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Louise M. Burkhart
ABSTRACT The emotive fixation on the Passion of Christ that developed in Western European Christianity during the later Middle Ages passed into the devotional practices of Nahuas and other Indigenous people in New Spain. A Nahuatl-language Passion play tradition, recorded in six surviving variants from approximately the first half of the eighteenth century, reveals how Nahuas adopted and adapted the
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Bunce Island: Through the Mirror – Epic Games’ MetaHumans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Katrina Keefer, Joseph M. Burton, Rachel L. J. Taunton, Wacera W. Muriuki
ABSTRACT Visualizing the traumatic past is a perennial challenge, particularly for historians of the slave trade. New innovations in digital technologies may offer a transformative framework to address this problem. Epic Games and its Unreal Engine, developed for use in industries such as film and video game production, animation, architectural visualization, and virtual reality simulations, offer
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Liberty and death: Pirates and zombies in Atlantic modernity Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Alexandra Ganser, Gudrun Rath
ABSTRACT Questioning the opposition of freedom and enslavement and of life and death, zombies and pirates have negotiated (post)colonial relations for centuries. Zombies, bodies or spirits doomed to serve a master beyond death, thematize histories of enslavement which also include rebellion. Similarly, pirates were used to articulate colonial adventure and exploitation on the one hand and the idea
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From Hawkins to Jenkins: interpreting violence in British-Atlantic piracy narratives Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Richard Frohock
ABSTRACT Reports of extreme violence are a defining feature of British-Atlantic piracy narratives. These violent episodes illustrate human behavior beyond the boundaries of civil norms and as such allow for a fundamental interrogation of those boundaries. The transgressive violence of pirate figures makes them ideally suited to exploring major political and philosophical topics of the period; the story
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The figure of the zombie and the memory of slavery across the Atlantic Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Laënnec Hurbon
ABSTRACT The figure of the zombie implies a particular relationship between the imaginary and everyday life in which the former is part of the latter. This has to be kept in mind when reflecting on the emergence of the zombie figure in Haiti. The figure of the zombie can be further thought through if we see it in relation with the “surviving image” (“afterlife” in George Didi-Huberman’s sense) of slavery
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Raising the living dead in postrevolutionary Haiti: Glory, salvation, and theopolitical sovereignty in the kingdom of Henry Christophe Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Doris L. Garraway
ABSTRACT This essay deploys the notion of the political zombie as a lens through which to examine the symbolic, metaphysical, and spectacular dimensions of the Haitian kingdom of Henry Christophe. I argue that divine-right monarchy provided a political theology through which to dignify the contradictions of what I call “abolitionist sovereignty”: that is, the virtual re-enslavement of the people on
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The death of liberty: The thirty years’ war and the origins of race law in the law of piracy Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Sonja Schillings
ABSTRACT The essay argues that the seventeenth-century law of piracy was central for the conceptualization of “racial difference” in English legal, political, and religious discourse. In the law of piracy, race originally served to curtail the liberty of European seafarers in the Mediterranean, but was quickly used to render emerging systems of slavery more severe in the Atlantic. This essay uses an
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Maroons, buccaneers, and the legend of Trou Forban Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Kieran M. Murphy
ABSTRACT Throughout Atlantic modernity, maroon and buccaneer encounters have generated long-lasting legacies that remain largely unexplored. In this essay I trace how these encounters included various forms of mutual recognition among Saint-Domingue’s black and white clandestine people. This history of mutual recognition sheds fresh light on the cultural and ideological context informing the role maroon
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Mobilizing the undead: Zombie films and the discourse of otherness from the 1930s to post-millennial cinema Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Florian Krautkrämer
ABSTRACT The figure of the zombie has undergone constant change in film history. From the Haitian zombie of the 1930s, related to the Atlantic history of enslavement, to zombie cannibals since the late 1960s and the fast-running zombie of the second millennium, it has been adapted to new realities and regimes of representation to better articulate, channel, and at times even stimulate the specific
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THE MONSTER INSIDE ME: 11 Dialogues about drastic aesthetics, the fictional monster, and boredom in the midst of the apocalypse Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Antonia Prochaska
ABSTRACT This work explores the human demand for fictional monsters and the narrative of the zombie apocalypse. When and why do monsters appear and what happens if they take over? Which psychological, social, and cultural needs do these scenarios satisfy? To answer these questions, Antonia Prochaska follows a communicative approach, using conversations as an artistic and knowledge-producing practice
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Atlantic studies early career essay prize winner 2022 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-10
Published in Atlantic Studies: Global Currents (Vol. 20, No. 1, 2023)
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Banishment, penal labor, and the quest for order in the early Dutch Atlantic world Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-06 D. L. Noorlander
ABSTRACT Banishment and criminal transportation were common legal practices in early modern Europe. With roots in the classical and medieval periods, banishment was a convenient tool for dealing with the troublesome members of the community by sending them to overseas colonies, where people were scarce and labor was expensive. And most colonies used banishment for their own criminal and rebel populations
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Old Time String Band: Sound, vision, and memory in the work of Stanley Greaves Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Ian Dudley
ABSTRACT Guyanese artist Stanley Greaves (1934–present) stands among the Caribbean’s leading creative figures, with a diverse production stretching across seven decades and incorporating painting, sculpture, and illustration, alongside poetry and music. His career encompasses associations with many of Guyana’s major cultural personalities and movements, including artist ER Burrowes and the Working
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Amelioration or abolition? British consulship, Haitian recognition, and the question of colonial emancipation Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Simeon Andonov Simeonov
Faced with the decline of British West Indian plantations and a growing abolitionist tide, Foreign Secretary George Canning embarked upon the policy of amelioration in 1823 with the aim of eradicat...
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An Austrian Atlantic: The Habsburg Monarchy and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-25 Jonathan Singerton
ABSTRACT The Atlantic became a place of continual interaction for the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg, a dynasty whose lands have so far received little or no attention in Atlantic historiography. This article demonstrates how the eighteenth century witnessed repeated attempts by Habsburg rulers to broker connections between the central European region and the Atlantic basin. In doing so,
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Kinship as critical idiom in oceanic studies Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Katharina Fackler, Silvia Schultermandl
ABSTRACT This introduction puts forth a working definition of oceanic kinship as kinship with the ocean and kinship shaped by the ocean. It uses the notion of kinship as a critical idiom and conceptual lens through which we can examine the oceanic turn’s potential for rethinking forms of human and nonhuman belonging. Modernity and coloniality were spurred and sustained by oceanic mobility. The oceans
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Mare Mortis: Blackness, ecology, and “kinlessness” in Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Jeremy Chow
ABSTRACT This essay examines the ocean as a site that both fractures and sutures kinship models to delineate black bodies from and against white bodies. Bringing the oceanic turn to Henry Neville’s The Isle of Pines (1668), I investigate how aqueous interaction forcibly disassociates the black body from kin and positions the ocean as meting out punishment. Immersion and drowning become death sentences
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A sailor’s kin: Faith, sexuality, and antislavery, 1840–1856 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 John Saillant
ABSTRACT An 1856 Black-authored autobiography, The Life of John Thompson, made significant advances in the genre of the American slave narrative. A runaway slave, whaler, folk theologian, and, ultimately, abolitionist author, Thompson expressed sympathy for a queer man trapped in slavery and sold away from the family and friends, almost certainly for purposes of sexual abuse by white men. Moreover
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“Near the sea”: Maritime kinship and oceanic kinship in Stevenson’s Treasure Island Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Alison Maas
ABSTRACT This essay argues that depictions of small craft sailing in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883) indicate an underlying crisis in the kinship structures of the age of sail as wrought by industrial capitalism’s rising reliance on steamships. Theorizing an older form of “maritime kinship” and its continuation in “oceanic kinship,” this essay re-evaluates the gap between late nineteenth-
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Taken by the sea wind: Langston Hughes and the currents of Black identity Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Joshua M. Murray
ABSTRACT Kevin Dawson has recently argued in Undercurrents of Power (2018) that waterscapes and aquatic culture played a crucial role in the African diaspora, and contemporary scholars “must move beyond landlocked paradigms.” This forms a necessarily transnational depiction of Black identity, one that eschews notions of nation and state. This essay follows Dawson’s lead by proposing a material confrontation
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Craig Santos Perez’s Poetics of multispecies kinship: Challenging militarism and extinction in the Pacific Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Heidi Amin-Hong
ABSTRACT Craig Santos Perez’s ecopoetry challenges the “rescue and recovery” narratives of species conservation embedded in processes of settler colonialism and militarism. Reading Perez’s poetry on the extinction of Guam’s avian life alongside the establishment of the Guam National Wildlife Refuge, its environmental impact testimonies, and avian conservation plans, this article develops a theory of
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Swim your ground: Towards a black and blue humanities Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Jonathan Howard
ABSTRACT This essay engages with the prevailing metaphor in our talk about ecological crisis: humanity’s carbon “footprint.” As a fitting place to begin thinking about humanity's excessive footprint and dominating interface with the planet, I suggest humanity’s first large-scale encounter with the deep sea during the transatlantic age of exploration and colonization. Or the opportunity our species
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Trans-species and post-human oceanic futures in Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider and James Nestor’s deep? Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Ruth Y. Hsu
ABSTRACT In this time of the sixth extinction (Kolbert), humans from different ontologies seek notions of being human that more fully account for humans’ dependance on the natural world. Answers to questions about human- and non-human relationships may reside in much older communal narratives. Kinship – defined by Marshall Sahlins as “mutuality of being” – is explored in Witi Ihimaera’s novel, The
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Kinship in the abyss: submerging with The Deep Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Elizabeth DeLoughrey
ABSTRACT While a body of earlier work on the Black Atlantic generally imagined the ocean as a backdrop for primarily heteronormative, masculine human agents to move from one continent to another, this westward telos has been complicated by a deeper engagement with Black queer intimacies and non-human kinship relations in the depths of the ocean. A recent novella written by Rivers Solomon with their
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Shipping – An afterword Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Hester Blum
ABSTRACT The -ship suffix in “kinship” and the seagoing “ship” are terms that describe forms of relation that bind and collect amid oceanic unboundedness and dispersal. This afterword proposes that shipping in sea parlance and shipping in fan culture (a speculative practice of forging connection between fictional characters beyond the bounds of their original media) share a constitutive commitment
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Zoïle’s pilgrimage: Abbé Ouvière’s Journal du Port-au-Prince (1791) and the struggle for free colored rights in revolutionary Saint-Domingue Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Chris Bongie
ABSTRACT The Journal du Port-au-Prince was first published in Saint-Domingue on 1 September 1791, days after an insurrection of the gens de couleur libres (free people of color) was launched in the colony’s West Province. This hitherto unexamined newspaper was edited by Félix Pascalis Ouvière, a recently arrived native of Aix-en-Provence who, by the time it ceased publication on 20 November, had earned
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Female staggered mobility across the Spanish Atlantic: The Bertodano-Kneppers in the early eighteenth century Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Francisco A. Eissa-Barroso
Drawing on the “new mobilities paradigm” and contemporary migration studies, this article offers an approximation to the experiences of mobility of María Juana Knepper y Trippel and her five daught...
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Caribbean plantation economies as colonial models: The case of the English East India Company and St. Helena in the late seventeenth century Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Michael D. Bennett
ABSTRACT In the 1680s the English East India Company (EIC) sought to develop a plantation economy in its South Atlantic colony of St. Helena, using the Caribbean island of Barbados as a colonial model. The EIC’s attempt to develop Barbadian-style plantations on St. Helena demonstrates the global reach of the Caribbean sugar colonies and their importance as an exemplar for English imperial projects
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On the brink of sovereignty: Maroon Chief Alonso de Illescas and vernacular agency in the colonial Atlantic Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Karina Sembe
Marronage is often treated in academic discussions as a compelling example of resistance, a type of agency that has a definitive insurgent impulse. This approach makes the study of maroons vulnerab...
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The unsettled Atlantic World of James Pinnock: The dynamics of race and class on the physical, social, and occupation mobilities of an eighteenth-century Jamaican houseful Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-17 Elizabeth M. Schmidt
Using the 1758–1794 diary of James Pinnock, an Anglo-Jamaican lawyer, we can examine the Pinnock houseful: himself, his wife and daughters, enslaved domestic servants, and enslaved plantation labor...
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Reorienting the “origins debate”: Anglo-American trafficking in enslaved people, c. 1615–1660 Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-02-17 L. H. Roper
This article argues that trafficking in enslaved Africans and Natives constituted a chief element in English overseas colonization and was a primary component of English overseas trade from the mid...
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Re:membering Europe – the empty pedestal and the space for Black belonging Atlantic Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Doron Eldar
ABSTRACT Following the removal of various monuments commemorating colonial figures, this paper introduces the Empty Plinth as epitomizing postcolonial Europe’s identity crisis. As Europe negotiates new discursive foundations for an increasingly multicultural society, this paper argues for a re-membering of Europe through a materialization of Black narratives in the European memoryscape for their potential