{"title":"“Presumtious enough to tell us that it is a fine country”: Competing visions during the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek exploring expedition of 1828","authors":"Cameron B. Strang","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2188045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2188045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45636378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katrina H. B. Keefer, Joseph M. Burton, Rachel L. J. Taunton, Wacera W. Muriuki
{"title":"Bunce Island: Through the Mirror – Epic Games’ MetaHumans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade","authors":"Katrina H. B. Keefer, Joseph M. Burton, Rachel L. J. Taunton, Wacera W. Muriuki","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2208989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2208989","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49078504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Raising the living dead in postrevolutionary Haiti: Glory, salvation, and theopolitical sovereignty in the kingdom of Henry Christophe","authors":"D. Garraway","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2189410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2189410","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay deploys the notion of the political zombie as a lens through which to examine the symbolic, metaphysical, and spectacular dimensions of the Haitian kingdom of Henry Christophe. I argue that divine-right monarchy provided a political theology through which to dignify the contradictions of what I call “abolitionist sovereignty”: that is, the virtual re-enslavement of the people on the part of the state in the interests of preserving territorial sovereignty and the abolition of colonial slavery. Analyzing the king’s coronation liturgy in the context of the history of French colonialism and its revolutionary overturning, I reveal how the monarchy imagined the mutual superhumanity of the sovereign and the people through supernatural tropes of glory, salvation, and spiritual nobility. Moving past the illusions of the universalization of rights, Christophe promoted a program of spiritual, material, and economic regeneration in an elusive effort to raise the living dead of slavery.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43824135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The death of liberty: The thirty years’ war and the origins of race law in the law of piracy","authors":"S. Schillings","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2022.2033095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2033095","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The essay argues that the seventeenth-century law of piracy was central for the conceptualization of “racial difference” in English legal, political, and religious discourse. In the law of piracy, race originally served to curtail the liberty of European seafarers in the Mediterranean, but was quickly used to render emerging systems of slavery more severe in the Atlantic. This essay uses an English street ballad of 1624 to illustrate and explore these entanglements. It suggests that “race” as a system of thought originates as a strategy for the violent subjection of populations constructed as non-white, but also for curtailing the political choices open to those constructed as white.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43113848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mobilizing the undead: Zombie films and the discourse of otherness from the 1930s to post-millennial cinema","authors":"Florian Krautkrämer","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2022.2125248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2125248","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 The figure of the zombie has undergone constant change in film history. From the Haitian zombie of the 1930s, related to the Atlantic history of enslavement, to zombie cannibals since the late 1960s and the fast-running zombie of the second millennium, it has been adapted to new realities and regimes of representation to better articulate, channel, and at times even stimulate the specific fears of their contemporaneous publics. This article analyzes a selection of zombies across film and TV history, focusing on contemporary high-grossing films like World War Z and TV shows like The Walking Dead. It aims at a critical reading of those zombies in the context of capitalism, globalism, and cosmopolitanism, asking to what various ends the undead have been mobilized in mainstream cinema.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41954492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maroons, buccaneers, and the legend of Trou Forban","authors":"Kieran M. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2186670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2186670","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Throughout Atlantic modernity, maroon and buccaneer encounters have generated long-lasting legacies that remain largely unexplored. In this essay I trace how these encounters included various forms of mutual recognition among Saint-Domingue’s black and white clandestine people. This history of mutual recognition sheds fresh light on the cultural and ideological context informing the role maroon societies were playing in fomenting slave insurrection in the events leading up to the Haitian Revolution. I also argue that it contributed to the development of Haiti’s postcolonial identity, folklore, politics, and popular theater. My main sources are colonial records, place names, Vodou mythology, and Haitian intellectual and literary history. I focus on the emergence of zombie and pirate lore as it became one of the most enduring legacies of mutual maroon and buccaneer recognition in Haiti and the Atlantic world.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45846532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE MONSTER INSIDE ME: 11 Dialogues about drastic aesthetics, the fictional monster, and boredom in the midst of the apocalypse","authors":"Antonia Prochaska","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2023.2188875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2023.2188875","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This work explores the human demand for fictional monsters and the narrative of the zombie apocalypse. When and why do monsters appear and what happens if they take over? Which psychological, social, and cultural needs do these scenarios satisfy? To answer these questions, Antonia Prochaska follows a communicative approach, using conversations as an artistic and knowledge-producing practice. Bringing together her interlocutors' understanding of the monstrous, she drafts a picture of the monster within. The zombie apocalypse is like a laboratory situation that gives an idea of where the human appears in the monstrous and the monstrous in the human.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47775978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Hawkins to Jenkins: interpreting violence in British-Atlantic piracy narratives","authors":"Richard Frohock","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2022.2033094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2033094","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Reports of extreme violence are a defining feature of British-Atlantic piracy narratives. These violent episodes illustrate human behavior beyond the boundaries of civil norms and as such allow for a fundamental interrogation of those boundaries. The transgressive violence of pirate figures makes them ideally suited to exploring major political and philosophical topics of the period; the story of piratical violence allows for dialogic formulations – claims and counterclaims – about national character, human nature, civil society, and the workings of empire in the Atlantic. While some British pirate narratives recount violence in order to assert nationalist, even jingoistic perspectives, others explore piratical violence as a way of satirizing mainstream British culture and imperialism as fundamentally predatory and piratical.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41996862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liberty and death: Pirates and zombies in Atlantic modernity","authors":"Alexandra Ganser, G. Rath","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2022.2161725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2161725","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Questioning the opposition of freedom and enslavement and of life and death, zombies and pirates have negotiated (post)colonial relations for centuries. Zombies, bodies or spirits doomed to serve a master beyond death, thematize histories of enslavement which also include rebellion. Similarly, pirates were used to articulate colonial adventure and exploitation on the one hand and the idea of a resistant collective beyond established power relations on the other. Both have been cast as figures of exception who are discursively located beyond law and state while simultaneously playing a constitutive role for both; both figures are marked by ambivalent characterizations – hero and criminal, rebel and slave, perpetrator and victim. This opening essay introduces the conjunctures of these figures in the Atlantic realm with a focus on their cultural-historical functions for empire and nation building, for legal discourses and the history of ideas, as well as for contemporary cultural and artistic research.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44048945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The figure of the zombie and the memory of slavery across the Atlantic","authors":"Laennec Hurbon","doi":"10.1080/14788810.2022.2146958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2022.2146958","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The figure of the zombie implies a particular relationship between the imaginary and everyday life in which the former is part of the latter. This has to be kept in mind when reflecting on the emergence of the zombie figure in Haiti. The figure of the zombie can be further thought through if we see it in relation with the “surviving image” (“afterlife” in George Didi-Huberman’s sense) of slavery. The master imagines the ideal slave as a being emptied of everything that constitutes him/her as a subject. Only the zombie is capable of fulfilling this ideal: an idea that lies at the core of the zombie imaginary. In this essay, I interrogate the power of the modern zombie imaginary. I investigate why the zombie as a phantasmagory of absolute power continues to emerge in literature, cinema and the arts and what it teaches us about the memory of slavery.","PeriodicalId":44108,"journal":{"name":"Atlantic Studies-Global Currents","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45202158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}