Countering a Northern focus in much Atlantic World scholarship, this volume brings together new scholarship in comparative literary studies, cultural studies and history which explores the South Atlantic as a region, or the way the Atlantic more widely has been viewed from the Global South.

AcknowledgementsIntroduction¿The Sea of International Politics¿: Fluidity, Solvency, and Drift in the Global South AtlanticJoseph R. Slaughter and Kerry BystromPart I: South Atlantic Imperial GeographiesChapter OneThe African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian AtlanticLuiz Felipe de AlencastroChapter TwoA World Girded: San Simonian Space and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Latin TransatlanticJaime HannekenChapter ThreeScheherazade in Chains: Arab-Islamic Genealogies of African Diasporic LiteratureJason FrydmanChapter FourSouthern By Degrees: Islands and Empires in the South Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Sub-Antarctic WorldIsabel HofmeyrPart II: South Atlantic Cold War ModernitiesChapter FiveBeyond the Color Curtain: The Metonymic Color Politics of the Tricontinental and the (New) Global SouthAnne-Garland MahlerChapter SixSouth Africa, Chile and the Cold War: Reading the South Atlantic in Mark Behr¿s The Smell of ApplesKerry BystromChapter SevenIslands in Distress: Making Sense of the Malvinas/Falklands WarOscar HemerChapter EightOrientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic: Gabriel García Marques and Elias KhouryChristina E. CivantosChapter NineMarvelous Autocrats: Disrupted Realisms in the Dictator-Novel of the South AtlanticMagalí Armillas-TiseyraPart III: Global South Atlantic FuturesChapter TenPostwar Politics in O Heroi and KangambaLanie MillarChapter ElevenAdrift between Neo-liberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeidäs EvaLuís MadureiraChapter TwelveA Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror: Rita Indiana Hernandez Writes the Dominican Republic into the Global South AtlanticMaja HornChapter ThirteenCarioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian TelenovelaWaïl HassanBibliographyAuthor¿s Bios