Freedom from Liberation : Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba /

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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
Autor principal: Aching, Gerard (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Manzano, Juan Francisco, > 1797-1854. > Autobiografía.
Autobiografía (Manzano, Juan Francisco)
Slaves.
Slavery.
HISTORY > Revolutionary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
Slavery > Cuba > History > 19th century.
Slaves > Cuba > Biography.
Cuba.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
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.

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