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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.


