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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection : Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion /

"Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdes (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality. Lik...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Pettway, Matthew (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Católico a mi manera: Christianizing Juan Francisco Manzano
  • Myth of the Christian poet: the death, resurrction, and redemption of Plácido
  • Present but unseen: African-Cuban spirituality and emancipation in the literature if Juan Francisco Manzano
  • Carnival, the virgin, and the saints: reading the African-Cuban spirit world in the poetry of Plácido
  • Black Cuban literati in the Age of Revolution: Gabriel de la Concepción Valdes and Juan Francisco Manzano.