Kerry Bystrom (Edited By) Kerry Bystrom is Associate Professor of English and Human Rights and Associate Dean of the College at Bard College Berlin.Joseph R. Slaughter (Edited By) Joseph R. Slaughter is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and President of the American Comparative Literature Association.

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