The article focuses on two novels – The Viceroy of Ouidah, by Bruce Chatwin, (1987; 1998) and O Último Negreiro, by Miguel Real (2007) – and the film Cobra Verde, by Werner Herzog (1987), taking the historical character Francisco Félix de Souza as a guiding thread to think the relations between fiction and history in the construction of an imaginary about a chapter of the history of the Black Atlantic. Supported in the discourses of the historical field, we analyze a network of interdisciplinary and intertextual cooperative relations, with emphasis in the Social Sciences. These networks are brought into the dialogue in which the Black Atlantic, read by the dominant bias of literature, is a privileged passageway of texts that provoke historical truth and demand of the theory a hybrid and mixed discourse composed of fiction, theory and historical reflection.