Atlantis Otherwiseexpands the study of the African diaspora by focusing on postcolonial literary expressions from Latin America and Africa. The book studies the presence of classical references in texts written by writers (black and non-black) who are committed to the articulation of the fragmented history of the African experience from the Middle Passage to the present outside of Euro-centric views. Consequently, this book addresses the silencing of the African Diaspora within the official discourses of Latin America and Hispanic Africa, as well as the limitations that linguistic and geographic boundaries have imposed upon scholarship.

The contributors address questions related to the categories of race and cultural identity by analyzing a diverse body of Afro-Latin American and Afro-Hispanic receptions of classical literature and its imaginaries. Literary texts in Spanish and Portuguese written in countries such as Brazil, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea provide the opportunity for a transnational and trans-linguistic examination of the use of classical tropes and themes in twentieth-century drama, fiction, folklore studies, and narrative.

Madeleine M. Henry is professor of classics and head of the School of Languages and Cultures at Purdue University.

Elisa Rizo is associate professor of Hispanic studies at Iowa State University.

Introduction, byMadeleine Henry and Elia Rizo
Chapter 1: From Cultural Appropriation to Historical Emendation: Two Cases Studies of Receptions of the Classical Tradition in Brazil, byAndrea Kouklanakis
Chapter 2: Black Angel: Classical Myth, Race and Desire in a Brazilian Modernist Play, byRodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and Guilherme Gontijo Flores
Chapter 3: Decolonizing Greek Theater: Black Experimental Theater, byCésar Augusto Baldi
Chapter 4:Changó el gran putas: A Drama of Memory, byJohn Maddo
Chapter 5: Resurrection of the Dead: Manuel Zapata OlivellasCaronte Liberado, byMadeleine Henry
Chapter 6: Glocalizing Democracy through a Reception of the Classics in Equatorial Guinean Theatre: The Case of MorgadesAntígona, byElisa Rizo
About the Contributors