Part of the vision depicted in the novels Middle Passage and Mimic Men is that the image local history is the scenery and landscape. Expresses idea that colonization creates nothing. It is obvious in a place, thrives there then disappears.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Journal Title Details:
xiii
Notes:
224 p, Contains: Introduction: The problems of literary Blackness in Latin America -- pt. 1. Early literature (1821-1921): In the beginning: oral literature and the "true Black experience" -- Slave poetry and slave narrative: Juan Francisco Manzano and Black autobiography -- Slave societies and the free Black writer: José Manuel Valdés and "Plácido" -- From antislavery to antiracism: Martín Morúa Delgado, Black novelist, politician, and critic of postabolitionist Cuba -- Cultural nationalism and the emergence of literary Blackness in Colombia: the originality of Candelario Obeso -- The Black swan: Gaspar Octavio Hernández, Panama's Black modernist poet -- pt. 2. Major period (1922-49): The turning point: the Blackening of Nicolás Guillén and the impact of his Motivos de son -- The Black writer, the Black press, and the Black Diaspora in Uruguay -- Juan Pablo Sojo and the Black novel in Venezuela -- Adalberto Ortiz and his Black Ecuadorian classic -- Literary Blackness in Colombia: the novels of Arnoldo Palacios -- pt. 3. Contemporary authors (1950- ): Literary Blackness in Colombia: the ideological development of Manuel Zapata Olivella -- Literary Blackness and Third Worldism in recent Ecuadorian fiction: the novels of Nelson Estupiñán Bass -- Folk forms and formal literature: revolution and the Black poet-singer in Ecuador, Peru, and Cuba -- Return to the origins: the Afro-Costa Rican literature of Quince Duncan -- Ebe Yiye -"the future will be better": an update on Panama from Black Cubena -- Conclusion: Prospects for a Black aesthetic in Latin America.
Bell,Roseann P. (Editor), Parker, (Editor), and Sheftall,Beverly Guy (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Garden City, NY: Anchor Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
422 p, Includes Eintou Apandaye's "The Caribbean woman as writer," Ellease Southerland's "The influence of voodoo on the fiction of Zora Neale Hurston," L. Anthony-Welch's "Wisdom : an interview with C.L.R. James," Marvin Williams' "Poem for a Rasta daughter," Nicolás Guillén' s "Angela Davis," among others.