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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Branche, Jerome (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Latin American literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Black people > Latin America > Intellectual life.
Black people > Caribbean Area > Intellectual life.
Arts, Black > Latin America.
Arts, Black > Caribbean Area.
Littérature latino-américaine > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Arts noirs > Amérique latine.
Arts noirs > Caraïbes (Région)
HISTORY > Latin America > General.
HISTORY > Social History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Arts, Black
Black people > Intellectual life
Latin American literature > Black authors
Caribbean Area
Latin America
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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