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

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 often si...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Branche, Jerome (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2015]
Subjects:	Latin American literature > Black authors > History and criticism. Blacks > Latin America > Intellectual life. Blacks > Caribbean Area > Intellectual life. Arts, Black > Latin America. Arts, Black > Caribbean Area. HISTORY / Latin America / General. HISTORY / Social History. LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: The Altar, the Oath and the Body of Christ: Ritual Poetics and Cuban Racial Politics of 1844, by Matthew Pettway
Chapter 2: Seeking Acceptance from Society and the State: Poems from Cuba's Black Press, 1882-1889, by Marveta Ryan
Chapter 3: Imagining the "New Black (Subject):" Ethical Transformations and Raciality in the Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nation, by Odette Casamayor-Cisneros
Chapter 4: Realism in Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Drama, by Elisa Rizo
Chapter 5: Bojaya in Colombian Theater: Kilele: A Drama of Memory and Resistance, by Maria Mercedes Jaramillo
Chapter 6: Uprising Textualities of the Americas: Slavery, Migration, and the Nation in Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Women's Narrative, by Lesley Feracho
Chapter 7: Disrobing Narcissus: Race, Difference and Dominance (Mayra Santos Febres' Nuestra senora de la noche Revisits the Puerto Rican National Allegory), by Jerome Branche
Chapter 8: Bilingualism, Blackness, and Belonging: The Racial and Generational Politics of Linguistic Transnationalism in Panama, by Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo
Chapter 9: Racial Consciousness, Place, and Identity in Selected Afro-Mexican Oral Poems, by Paulette Ramsay
Chapter 10: Afro-Uruguayan Culture and Legitimation: Candombe and Poetry, by Melva Persico
Chapter 11: Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship, by Niyi Afolabi
Chapter 12: (W)riting Collective Memory (De)Spite State: Decolonial Practices of Existence in Ecuador, by Catherine Walsh with Juan Garcia Salazar.