The Rise of the New Atlantic Studies Matrix

Sometidos a esclavitud: los africanos y sus descendientes en el Caribe Hispano

“…Parto de varias premisas: primero, los circuitos forjados por comerciantes portugueses alrededor del flujo de esclavos, productos primarios y metales entre África, América y Europa constituyeron uno de los ejes fundacionales de la llamada primera globalización (Arrighi y Moore, 2001;Magalhães Godinho, 1974;Mauro, 1960); segundo, los archipiélagos atlánticos -lusos, hispanos y africanos-fungieron como bisagras fundamentales de estos ejes (Bentley Duncan, 1972;Bethencourt, 2012;Lobo Cabrera, 1982y 1985Lobo Cabrera y Torres Santana, 1997;Vieira, 2013;Vila Vilar, 1987); y tercero, la vinculación de las Antillas hispanas y la cuenca caribeña con los circuitos atlánticos portugueses fue significativa (Keith, 1969;Vila Vilar, 2014;Wheat, 2016). De ahí surge el título Emaranhado ("enredado") que tomo del concepto de entangled histories o entangled Atlantics desarrollado por atlanticistas de la academia estadounidense para enfatizar la naturaleza híbrida, compleja y multiétnica de los intercambios atlánticos en este periodo (Boelhower, 2008;Cañizares-Esguerra y Breen, 2013;Games, 2006;Gould, 2007aGould, y 2007bPutnam, 2006). Utilizo el concepto para ilustrar la integración de las Antillas hispanas al Atlántico luso-africano (portugués y africano) durante el periodo del estudio.…”

Episodic or Novelistic?: Law in the Atlantic and the Form of Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack

“…By all accounts, the text draws together issues and a terrain ripe for analysis through what William C e r v a n t e s the "new Atlanticist critique"-a scholarly movement intent on recognizing the "multiple and differently inflected geo-political positions, each with its distinct history and agency in the Atlantic world." 29 Somewhat ironically, however, the transformations of the narrative's hero and his expansive links to historical events and sites have made it difficult to appreciate the novel as a literary work. This depreciation has been true since the early nineteenth century.…”

America's first coastal community: A cis- and circumatlantic reading of John Smith'sThe Generall Historie of Virginia

“…71 Including the maritime world as a cultural entity independent of, though on a continuum with, nations and empires is a necessary means of embracing the wider range of complexity that Boelhower calls for. Understanding that the influences of the maritime world extended beyond the obvious boundaries of the ship's hull provides historians, sociologists, and literary critics alike with a wide range of new interpretive tools for understanding how and why the people of early America and of the Atlantic saw, understood, and lived in their world.…”