'Theorising the Ibero-American Atlantic' offers a fresh look at the Atlantic turn in Ibero-American Studies. Taking the criticisms launched at Atlantic Studies as a starting point, contributors query and explore the viability of the Ibero-American Atlantic as a framework of research. Their essays take stock of theories, methodologies, debates and trends in recent scholarship, and set down pathways for future research. As a result, the contributions in this volume establish the historical reality of the Ibero-American Atlantic as well as its tremendous value for scholarship.
Author(s): Harald E. Braun, Lisa Vollendorf (eds.)
Series: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 53
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 332
City: Leiden
Foreword / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra vii
Introduction. The Atlantic Turn: Rethinking the Ibero-American Atlantic / Harald E. Braun and Lisa Vollendorf 1
PART ONE. DEFINING THE IBERO-AMERICAN ATLANTIC
The Iberian Atlantic: Ties, Networks, and Boundaries / Francisco Bethencourt 15
Understanding the Lusophone Atlantic / David Brookshaw 37
The Iberian Atlantic, 1492–2012 / José C. Moya 51
'A Hemisphere to Itself': The American Revolution and the Entangled History of the Western Atlantic / Eliga H. Gould 75
PART TWO. EARLY MODERN EXCHANGES: IDENTITIES AND TIES (1492–1850)
Gender in the Atlantic World: Women’s Writing in Iberia and Latin America / Lisa Vollendorf and Grady C. Wray 99
Between Ethnicity, Commerce, Religion, and Race: The Elusive Definition of an Early Modern Jewish Atlantic / David Graizbord 117
Scientific Practices in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic / Mauricio Nieto Olarte 141
Literary Exchange in the Portuguese-Brazilian Atlantic before 1822 / Vanda Anastácio 159
PART THREE. TRANSATLANTIC MIGRATIONS: CULTURE AND HISTORY RECONSIDERED (1850 - TODAY)
The Origins of Atlantic Modernism and the Spanish-Speaking World / Andrew Ginger 175
Hidden in Plain View: Catalans and the Making of Modern Uruguay / Thomas Harrington 199
Theses on the Politics of Memory across the Atlantic / Luis Martín-Cabrera 221
Domesticity, Motherhood, and Transnational Reproductive Work in Contemporary Latin American Immigration to Spain / Daniela Flesler and N. Michelle Shepherd 241
Epilogue. Transatlantic Hispanism or Ibero-Atlanticism? / Joan Ramon Resina 265
Works Cited 273
Notes on Contributors 303
Index 309
