This incisive new study demonstrates how Columbian writer Manuel Zapata Olivellaâ??s novel Changó el gran putas (1983) and Brazilian-born Ana Maria Gonçalvesâ?? saga Um defeito de cor (2006) transcend Paul Gilroyâ??s paradigm of the Black Atlantic to show revolutions, communities, and femininities that prophesy a just â?oNew World.â?Â