1. Introduction: Atlantic Genealogies—Ian Baucom

2. On the Renaissance Epic: Spenser and Slavery—Maureen Quilligan

3. Mobility in Chains: Freedom of Movement in the Early Black Atlantic—Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

4. Specters of the Atlantic—Ian Baucom

5. "Subtilized into Savages": Edmund Burke, Progress, and Primitivism—Luke Gibbons

6. Black Atlantics, White Indians, and Jews: Locations, Locutions, and Syncretic Identities in the Fiction of Achmat Dangor and Others—Loren Kruger

7. Ocean—Matthew Francis

8. Atlantic Aporias: Africa and Gilroy's Black Atlantic—Charles Piot

9. The "Cult of Nations" and the Ritualization of Their Purity—J. Lorand Matory

10. A Street Named Bissette: Nostalgia, Memory, and the Cent-Cinquantenaire of the Abolition of Slavery in Martinique (1848–1998)—Chris Bongie

11 Diasporic Roots: Imagining a Nation in Earl Lovelace's Salt—Supriya Nair

12. The Postcolonial Chickens Come Home to Roost: How Yardie Has Created a New Postcolonial Subaltern—Grant Farred

13. The Great Hole of History: Liturgical Silence in Beckett, Osofisan, and Parks—Joseph Roach

14. Notes on Contributors

Christopher Bongie

Grant Farred

Matthew Francis

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Luke Gibbons

Loren Kruger

J. Lorand Matory

Supriya Nair

Charles Piot

Maureen Quilligan

Joseph Roach

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