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Author Jackson, Richard L., 1937-

Title Black writers and the Hispanic canon / Richard Jackson
Published New York : Twayne Publishers ; [1997]
London : Prentice Hall International, [1997]
©1997
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 139 pages)
Series Gale virtual reference library
Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 867
Gale virtual reference library.
Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 867
Contents The complexity of complexion: reading and understanding Black Hispanic writing -- Biography and Black autobiography: Black Hispanic writers and the autobiographical statement -- Slavery and the pivotal Afro-Cubans: Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografía, Nicolás Guillén's El diario que a diario, and Nancy Morejón's "Mujer negra" -- Miscegenation and personal choice in Venezuela: message and mestizaje in Juan Pablo Sojo's Nochebuena negra -- Ambiguity, locura, and Black ambition in two Afro-Ecuadorian novels: Adalberto Ortiz's Juyungo and Nelson Estupiñán Bass's El último río -- Epic, civic, and moral leadership: Manuel Zapata Olivella's Chambacú, coarral de negros; Changó, el gran putas; and Levántate mulato -- Black poetry and the model self: Pilar Barrios's Piel negra and Gerardo Maloney's Juego vivo -- Two black Central American novelists of antillano origin: race, nationalism, and the mirror image in Cubena's Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores and Quince Duncan's Los cuatro espejos -- Dominican blackness: Blas Jiménez's Caribe africano en despertar and Norberto James's Sobre de la marcha -- Passing the torch: Nicomedes Santa Cruz's Ritmos negros del Perú and Antonio Acosta Márquez's Yo pienso aquí doned ... estoy -- From authenticity to "authentic space": the emergence, challenge, and validity of Black Hispanic literature
Summary Provides a critical introduction to Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Best books -- Latin America
Blacks in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Spanish American literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
Geschichte 1800-1997.
Geschichte 1821-1996.
Best books.
Blacks in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Literatur
Schriftsteller
Spanish American literature -- Black authors.
Hispanoamerika
Lateinamerika
Latin America.
Schwarze.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0805717544
9780805717549