Marvelous Autocrats

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents v
3. introduction. The Sea of International Politics 1
4. part I. South Atlantic Imperial Geographies
5. The African Slave Trade and the Construction of the Iberian Atlantic 33
6. A World Girded 46
7. Scheherazade in Chains 65
8. Southern by Degrees 81
9. part II. South Atlantic Cold War Modernities
10. Beyond the Color Curtain 99
11. South Africa, Chile, and the Cold War 124
12. Islands in Distress 144
13. Orientalism and the Narration of Violence in the Mediterranean Atlantic 165
14. Marvelous Autocrats 186
15. part III. Global South Atlantic Futures
16. Postwar Politics in O Herói and Kangamba 207
17. Adrift Between Neoliberalism and the Revolution 225
18. A Sweet Sweet Tale of Terror 253
19. Carioca Orientalism 274
20. acknowledgments 295
21. Works Cited 297
22. contributors 331
23. index 335