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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 Valdés (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. Likew...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pettway, Matthew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
Series:Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Subjects:
Manzano, Juan Francisco, > 1797-1854.
Plácido, > 1809-1844.
Cuban literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Cuban literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Cuban literature > Religious aspects.
Cuban literature.
Cuban literature > Black authors.
1800-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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