Title Writing for inclusion : literature, race, and national identity in nineteenth-century Cuba and the United States / Karen Kornweibel

Published Vancouver : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Contents Reflections on Afro-Cuban and African American discourses of identity -- Countering negation in Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass's early texts and patronage relationships -- Common narrative threads in the Autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano and narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave -- The discourse of the future citizen in the nonfiction of Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt -- Generating the future citizen in Morúa Delgado's Sofía and Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars Summary "Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martín Morúa Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity" -- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject Cuban literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism Cuban literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism National characteristics in literature. Race in literature. Comparative literature -- Cuban and American Comparative literature -- American and Cuban American literature. American literature -- African American authors. Cuban literature. Cuban literature -- Black authors. National characteristics in literature. Race in literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2018058344 ISBN 9781683930983 1683930983

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