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Black writing, culture, and the state in Latin America /

"Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Branche, Jerome (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Altar, the Oath, and the Body of Christ: Ritual Poetics and Cuban Racial Politics of 1844
  • 2. Seeking Acceptance from the Society and the State: Poems from Cuba's Black Press, 1882-1889
  • 3. Imagining the "New Black Subject": Ethical Transformations and Raciality in the Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nation
  • 4. Realism in Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Drama
  • 5. Bojayá in Colombian Theater: Kilele: A Drama of Memory and Resistance
  • 6. Uprising Textualities of the Americas: Slavery, Migration, and the Nation in Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Women's Narrative
  • 7. Disrobing Narcissus: Race, Difference, and Dominance (Mayra Santos Febres's Nuestra Señora de la noche Revisits the Puerto Rican National Allegory)
  • 8. Bilingualism, Blackness, and Belonging: The Racial and Generational Politics of Linguistic Transnationalism in Panama
  • 9. Racial Consciousness, Place, and Identity in Selected Afro-Mexican Oral Poems
  • 10. Afro-Uruguayan Culture and Legitimation: Candombe and Poetry
  • 11. Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship
  • 12. (W)riting Collective Memory (De)spite State: Decolonial Practices of Existence in Ecuador
  • Contributors
  • Index.