Literary Bondage : : Slavery in Cuban Narrative / / William Luis.
In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Texas Pan American Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION. Fiction and Fact: The Antislavery Narrative and Blacks as Counter-Discourse in Cuban History
- ONE. The Antislavery Narrative: Writing and the European Aesthetic
- TWO. Textual Multiplications Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia and Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes
- THREE. Time in Fiction Francisco Calcagno's Rornualdo, uno de tantos and Aponte and Martin Morua Delgado's Sofia and La familia Unzuazu
- FOUR. Historical Fictions Displacement and Change—Lino Novas Calvo's El negrero and Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This
- FIVE. I The Politics of Memory Miguel Barnet's The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave and Cesar Leante's Los guerrilleros negro
- SIX. Present and Future Antislavery Narratives Reinaldo Arenas's Graveyard of the Angels
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX