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Améfrica in letters : literary interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone / edited by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar ; afterword by Mamadou Badiane.
Van Pelt Library PQ7081.7.B55 A59 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hispanic issues ; [46]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin American literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature.
- Latin American literature--African influences.
- Latin American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Latin American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Black people--Latin America--Intellectual life.
- Black people.
- Black people--Intellectual life.
- Latin American literature--Black authors.
- Latin America.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Essays.
- Literary criticism.
- Physical Description:
- x, 258 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "This book examines the work and influence of under-studied Black writers in Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Black writing on Améfrica's mainland: disruptions to the prose of multiculturalism / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
- Améfrica's poetics. Language and the construction of gendered identities in Afro-Mexican corridos or ballads / Paulette A. Ramsay
- A post-ethnic/racial futurescape in Wingston González's cafeina MC / Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez
- Antonio Preciado: Ecuador's Afrocentric poet / Michael Handelsman
- Lettered outliers. Transatlantic routing and rooting in Quince Duncan's Kimbo / Gloria E. Chacón
- The palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera's Camino a Mariato / Ángela Castro
- Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva's #Parem de nós matar / Eliseo Jacob
- Intellectual sonar. Other forests: the Afro-Brazilian literary archive / Isis Barra Costa
- Dismantling coloniality via the vocabulary of Afro-Chilean music-dance / Juan Eduardo Wolf
- Xiomara Cacho Caballero: linguistic revitalization on Central America's Narco Islands / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
- Reclaiming lands, identity, and autonomy: rap lyrics in rural Chocó, Colombia / Diana Rodríguez Quevedo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- British Library not licensed to copy 0.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Améfrica in letters.
- ISBN:
- 9780826505132
- 0826505139
- 9780826505149
- 0826505147
- OCLC:
- 1334895516
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