Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies

1. Introduction: The Contours of a Field (Cassander L. Smith, Nicholas R. Jones, Miles P. Grier)Part I. Space and Field2. Maroons in the Montes: Towards a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Sixteenth Century Caribbean (Gabriel de Avilez Rocha)3. Women/Animals/Slaves: Race and Sexuality in Wycherley's The Country Wife (Derrick Higginbotham)Part II. Archives and Methods4. Choreographies of Trans-Atlantic Primitivity: Sub-Saharan Isolation in Black Dance Historiography (Esther J. Terry)5. Ventriloquizing Blackness: Citing Enslaved Africans in the Caribbean, 1655-1685 by Ashley Williard6. "Candy No Witch in Her Country": What One Enslaved Woman's Testimony During the Salem Witch Trials Can Tell Us About the Origins of Early American Literature (Cassander L. Smith)Part III. Period Tensions7. "Is Black So Base a Hue?": Black Life Matters in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (David Sterling Brown)8. "[L]ooking at me my body across distances": Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Seventeenth-Century European Religious Concepts of Race (Lauren Shook)9. "Do you love, master?": The Erotics and Politics of Servitude in The Tempest (Rebecca Kumar)Part IV. Early Modern Black Lives Matter: A Critical Roundtable 10. Necrocapitalism and the Early Modern Iberian Black Diaspora as Academic Field (John Beusterien)11. Debt Collecting, Disappearance, Necromancy: A Response to John Beusterien (Nicholas R. Jones)12. Ain't She a Shakespearean: Truth, Giovanni, and Shakespeare (Dennis Austin Britton)13. The Color of Professionalism: A Response to Dennis Britton (Miles P. Grier)... Mehr