What is between the lines(?) -- Translations of transnational black icons in the poetics of Frances Harper -- Signs of blood: redemption songs and "American" poetry beyond borders -- Write the vision: gender and nation beyond emancipation -- Prison breaks: modes of escape in Auta de Souza's poetics of freedom -- Where do we go from here?: the implications of textual migrations -- Afrodescendente history as/and transnational poetics