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Freedom from liberation : slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba /

By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aching, Gerard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature
  • In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano's autobiography
  • Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free
  • Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies
  • Epilogue.