The black Atlantic, American studies and the politics of the postcolonial

Abstract

Twelve years of scholarship in the field of black-Atlanticmeets-American studies has resulted in a substantial body of knowledge around the extraterritorial excursions of US subjects and their cultural output. Despite the opportunities that the black Atlantic offered, it has begun to seem that the repositioning of academic perspective it stems from has itself become part of the discursive problems surrounding US American studies.