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33 Literature and the Red Atlantic
Get accessJace Weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia. A leading figure in Native American studies, he is the author or editor of twelve books, including That the People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community and American Indian Literary Nationalism (with Craig Womack and Robert Warrior). His most recent is The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and Transoceanic Cultural Exchange, 1000-1927, forthcoming from University of North Carolina Press.
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Published:01 May 2014
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In 1993, Afro-British sociologist Paul Gilroy published The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Written almost fifty years after the first stirring of Atlantic World history, it explores the diasporic odyssey of Africans and persons of African descent around the Atlantic basin, as well as W. E. B. DuBois’s concept of “double consciousness.” With his book, Gilroy paved the way for Atlantic World studies, which is generally about blacks and whites. Later, a “Red Atlantic” emerged, shaped along the lines of the Black Atlantic and centered on Native Americans. This article examines the history of trans-Atlantic intellectual and creative exchange, as well as the oceanic and continental influences on Indigenous literature. It discusses a number of texts that have contributed to the formulation of the Red Atlantic, including those attributed to Susanna Haswell Rowson, Voltaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Garcilaso de la Vega, and Paul Cuffe and his son, Paul Jr.
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