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Writing the Afro-Hispanic - Essays on Africa and Africans in the Spanish Caribbean (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
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Writing the Afro-Hispanic - Essays on Africa and Africans in the Spanish Caribbean (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
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The impact of the African Diaspora in Spanish America is far
greater than is understood or acknowledged in the English speaking
world. Connected initially to the Spanish-Caribbean through
trans-Atlantic slavery, Africa is so deeply ingrained in the
biology and culture of these countries that, in the words of the
Cuban poet Nicolas Guillen, it would require the work of a
'miniaturist to disentangle that hieroglyph.' Through complex
explorations of narratives of Spanish Blacks in the Caribbean this
collection of essays builds critically on mid and late twentieth
century Afro-Hispanist scholarship and thereby amplifies the terms
in which Africans in the Americas are generally discussed. Each of
these essays deals with a pivotal aspect of the African experience
in the Spanish speaking Caribbean from the period of slavery to the
present day. The essays focus on Black African cultures in Cuba,
Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic as well as in the circum
Caribbean areas of Mexico and Colombia. In the process they cover a
vast and highly involved range of issues including abolition and
the politics of anti-slavery rhetoric, African women's political
activism, performance poetry and female embodiment of the Black
Diaspora, the Cuban Revolution and its investment in African
liberation struggles, race and intra-Caribbean migration,
ritualised spirituality and African healing practices among others.
Through their investigation of both official and popular cultures
in the Caribbean not only do the essays in this volume show the
indispensable functions of African cultural capital in the Spanish
speaking Caribbean but they also underline the multiple
demographic, socio-political and institutional imperatives that are
at stake in considering contemporary understandings of the African
Diaspora. ______________________________________ Conrad James
received his PhD in Modern Languages at the University of Cambridge
and teaches Spanish Caribbean and US Latino literature at the
University of Birmingham. He taught previously at the University of
Durham and has held visiting positions at the University of
California Santa Cruz and the University of Maryland. James has
published widely on Cuban women's writing and Afro-Cuban literature
of the 20th century. He has also worked on Dominican and
Dominican-American fiction and poetry.
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