Description |
1 online resource (xix, 139 pages) |
Series |
Gale virtual reference library |
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Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 867 |
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Gale virtual reference library.
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Twayne's world authors series ; TWAS 867
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Best books -- Latin America
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Blacks in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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Spanish American literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
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Geschichte 1800-1997.
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Geschichte 1821-1996.
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Best books.
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Blacks in literature.
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Canon (Literature)
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Literatur
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Schriftsteller
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Spanish American literature -- Black authors.
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Hispanoamerika
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Lateinamerika
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Latin America.
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Schwarze.
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
0805717544 |
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9780805717549 |
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