Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Contours of a Field

Chapter 2 Maroons in the Montes : Toward a Political Ecology of Marronage in the Sixteenth-Century Caribbean

Chapter 3 Women/Animals/Slaves: Race and Sexuality in Wycherley’s The Country Wife

Chapter 4 Choreographies of Trans-Atlantic Primitivity: Sub-Saharan Isolation in Black Dance Historiography

Chapter 5 Ventriloquizing Blackness: Citing Enslaved Africans in the French Caribbean, c.1650–1685

Chapter 6 “Candy No Witch in Her Country”: What One Enslaved Woman’s Testimony During the Salem Witch Trials Can Tell Us About Early American Literature

Chapter 7 “Is Black so Base a Hue?”: Black Life Matters in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus

Chapter 8 “[L]ooking at Me My Body Across Distances”: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Seventeenth-Century European Religious Concepts of Race

Chapter 9 “Do You Love Me, Master?”: The Erotic Politics of Servitude in The Tempest and Its Postcolonial Afterlife

Chapter 10 Necrocapitalism and the Early Modern Iberian Black Diaspora as Academic Field

Chapter 11 Debt Collecting, Disappearance, Necromancy: A Response to John Beusterien

Chapter 12 Ain’t She a Shakespearean: Truth, Giovanni, and Shakespeare

Chapter 13 The Color of Professionalism: A Response to Dennis Britton