Writing for inclusion : literature, race, and national identity in nineteenth-century Cuba and the United States /

"Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martín Morúa Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kornweibel, Karen (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : Lanham : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Subjects:
1800-1899
Cuban literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Cuban literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics in literature.
Race in literature.
Comparative literature > Cuban and American.
Comparative literature > American and Cuban.
Littérature cubaine > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Littérature cubaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Caractéristiques nationales dans la littérature.
Race dans la littérature.
American literature
American literature > African American authors
Cuban literature
Cuban literature > Black authors
National characteristics in literature
Race in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reflections on Afro-Cuban and African American discourses of identity
  • Countering negation in Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass's early texts and patronage relationships
  • Common narrative threads in the Autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano and narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
  • The discourse of the future citizen in the nonfiction of Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt
  • Generating the future citizen in Morúa Delgado's Sofía and Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars.

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