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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aching, Gerard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:
Manzano, Juan Francisco, > 1797-1854. > Autobiografía.
Autobiografía (Manzano, Juan Francisco)
1800-1899
Enslaved persons > Cuba > Biography.
Slavery > Cuba > History > 19th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > Revolutionary.
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Cuba
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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