Freedom from liberation : slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba / Gerard Aching.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aching, Gerard, author.

Series:

Blacks in the diaspora.

Blacks in the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Cuba--Biography.

Enslaved persons.

Slavery--Cuba--History--19th century.

Slavery.

Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854. Autobiografía.

Manzano, Juan Francisco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano's autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano's text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial an

Contents:

Introduction

liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature

In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano's autobiography

Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free

Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253017055

025301705X

OCLC:

914473930