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Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value , Francisco-]. Hernández Adrián
Atlantic Nessologies: Image, Territory, Value , Francisco-]. Hernández Adrián
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This essay addresses the emerging field of Atlantic Studies and questions the status of "the Atlantic" as an object of study. Rather than assuming a self-evident grid where Atlantic cultural phenomena oscillate between such poles as "centers and peripheries," or "the colonizer and the colonized," I consider a different formulation of the Atlantic. Taking as a starting point an analysis of a poem by Tomás Morales, a modernista poet from the Canary Islands, my essay outlines the notion of "Atlantic nessologies." Three parallel departures are offered from this analysis: image (or the realm of the imaginary); territory (or spatial and …