"The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Goncalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois's double consciousness, Zapata, in Chango el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia,...