139 p, Contains: 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.
