ABSTRACT
The second series of critical works deal with the presentation of Africa and African cosmology within contemporary texts from Peru, Colombia, and Equatorial Guinea. This section establishes a trans-Atlantic cultural connection that links Africa to her Diaspora in the Americas. Similar to the approach of Paul Gilroy in The Black Atlantic, the four chapters chart the cultural, historical, and political ties to Africa in a reverse route: from Africa across the southern Atlantic to the Americas. The scholars presented here demonstrate the infl uences of African cosmology on Hispanic literary traditions. Here, “Hispanic literary tradition” is broadly defi ned to include the literature of Spain’s former colony in Africa, Equatorial Guinea. Argued is the infl uence of African philosophy and metaphysics on literary production by writers in Spanish America and in Africa.
