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The Trade in the Living
Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazils emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era. The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the sad blood of the black and unfortunate souls imported from Angola. In The Trade in the Living, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America, while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian colonists, dependent on Angolan slaves, were often violently asserted in Africa, to ensure men and commodities continued to move back and forth across the Atlantic. In exposing this intricate and complementary relationship between two non-European continents, de Alencastro has fashioned a new and challenging examination of colonial Brazil, one that moves beyond its relationship with Portugal to discover a darker, hidden history.
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context
Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity constitutes an exceptional religious tradition flourishing in sub-Saharan Africa already since late antiquity. The volume places Ethiopian Orthodoxy into a global context and explores the various ways in which it has been interconnected with the wider Christian world from the Aksumite period until today. By highlighting the formative role of both wide-ranging translocal religious interactions as well as disruptions thereof, the contributors challenge the perception of this African Christian tradition as being largely isolated in the course of its history. Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context: Entanglements and Disconnections offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa’s Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global Christianity.
The Mission of the Portuguese Augustinians to Persia and Beyond (1602-1747)
John M. Flannery describes the establishment and activities of the Portuguese Augustinian mission in Persia.
McOndo Revisited
The first book-length analysis of the controversial Pan-Hispanic short story anthology “McOndo” (1996) draws on World Literature scholarship to take a step toward reclaiming the anthology’s artistic intentions and considering its generation-defining legacy in Latin American literary history.
Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries)
Trade and Finance in Global Missions (16th-18th Centuries) is a collection of articles analysing the interplay between economic and Catholic missions in the early modern period and in the global context of Christian expansion.
Contrabandista entre mundos fronterizos
S’articulant autour de ces axes que sont le voyage vers le Nouveau Monde, l’histoire du christianisme et de l’évangélisation, le franchissement des frontières et normes, et l’ouverture à l’inconnu, évoquant encore ces figures, religieuses ou littéraires, qui ont franchi, socialement, artistiquement, les au-delà, le recueil « Contrabandista entre mundos fronterizos » nous impose plus particulièrement une autre histoire du continent sud-américain. Un sujet qui ouvre les portes sur différents états de cet espace, et qui soulève, implicitement, les problématiques liées aux échanges, aux rencontres entre civilisations, aux imprégnations et canaux souterrains qui se cr...
New Mythological Figures in Spanish Cinema
In the 1970s, especially after Franco's death in 1975, Spanish cinema was bursting at the seams. Numerous film directors broke free from the ancient taboos which had reigned under the dictatorship. They introduced characters who, through their bodies, transgress the traditional borders of social, cultural and sexual identities. Post- Franco cinema exhibits women, homosexuals, transsexuals, and delinquents in new and challenging ways.Under Franco rule, all of these dissident bodies were 'lost'. Here, they reflect new mythological figures, inhabiting an idealised body form (a prototypical body).
Le Jeu Sacre Maya
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Temporalité à la Renaissance
Mesurer le temps, saisir l'instant éphémère ou jouir d'un temps humain sont autant de questions fondamentales qui ont bouleversé la Renaissance ; c'est comme auteur marqué par cette réflexion esthétique et philosophique que Garcilaso de la Vega, poète espagnol emblématique du XVIe siècle, a façonné son œuvre. Saint Augustin, Pétrarque, Platon et Virgile ou encore Alberti sont les figures tutélaires à travers lesquelles l'écriture interroge le sens de l'événement, de la perte de l'être aimé. Car là est bien la découverte fondamentale que tissent les poèmes garcilasiens : grâce à cette séparation avec son objet, le sujet peut penser la temporalité et s'ouvrir au sens du présent, du passé et de l'avenir. Au fil d'une étude de référence, Florence Madelpuech-Toucheron montre comment la relation sujet/objet se révèle être l'axe fondateur de la poétique garcilasienne et fait du pouvoir de la représentation - réunion du sujet et de l'objet dans le présent par l'image - la clé de cet édifice poétique. Brillamment mené, son ouvrage apporte une preuve fascinante du bien nommé Siècle d'Or espagnol.
