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Writing for inclusion : literature, race, and national identity in nineteenth-century Cuba and the United States
\"Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martâin Morâua Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity\" -- Provided by publisher.
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Writing for Inclusion
Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt from the post-slavery period. All four share sensitivity to their imperfect inclusion as full citizens, engage in an examination of the process of racialization that hinders them in seeking such inclusion, and contest their definition as non-citizens. Works discussed include the slave narratives of Manzano and Douglass, Manzano's poetry and play Zafira, andDouglass's oratory and novella The Heroic Slave. Also considered, within the context provided by Manzano and Douglass, are Morúa and Chesnutt's non-fiction writings about race and nation as well as their second-generation \"tragic mulata\" novels Sofía and The House Behind the Cedars. Based on an examination of the works of these four authors, Writing for Inclusion provides a detailed examination of examples of self-emancipation, the authors' symbolic use of language, their expression of social anxieties or irony within the quest for recognition, and their arguments for an inclusive vision of national identity beyond the quagmires of race. By focusing on the process of racialization and ideas of race and national identity in a comparative context, the study seeks to highlight the artificial and contested nature of both terms and suggest new ways to interrogate them in our present day.
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Mayaya Rising
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin's epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, \"Miss Lizzie,\" figures prominently in four anthologies from the country's Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.
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Literary Representations from the Border: The American Dream, Immigration and Identity
Abstract This article aims to compare and contrast the concepts of subjectivity represented in literature and constructed in borders: physical and imaginary geopolitical sites that have positioned identities in the margins throughout history. The comparative analysis examines the representation of marginal identities in literary texts, specifically those written by authors belonging to hyphenated cultures such as the Cuban-American Gustavo Pérez-Firmat (1994), “Bilingual Blues,” and Mexican-American Gloria Anzaldúa’s “La encrucijada,” among others, mentioned in the bibliography. The study shows that the portrayal of subjectivity and subalternity in literary texts contends with diverse discourses of power and hefty political structures that tend to repress and to delimit character’s development and conditions as human beings living in the United States.
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Cuban Americans (CAs) and Type 2 Diabetes
Type 2 diabetes is associated with increased morbidity and mortality in Hispanics but few studies have been done to differentiate diabetes effects in Hispanic subgroups, such as Cuban Americans. The purpose of this review was to characterize the studies conducted on Cuban Americans with type 2 diabetes with the aim of updating knowledge related to physiologic factors, psychologic factors, and diabetes self-management. An extensive literature search located 18 studies that met the inclusion criteria for this review. Previous studies provided consistent evidence demonstrating the influence of lifestyle, metabolic, and psychosocial risk factors that lead to poorer outcomes for CAs. No intervention studies were found examining the effect of treatment and education on diabetes control. Future research is needed to determine how these factors associated with diabetes can be used in lowering risks and improving health outcomes for Cuban Americans.
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Minúsculos terroristas
De manera comparada y transmedial, este trabajo pone en escena una serie de materiales que hacen entrar en crisis las concepciones comunes, en Occidente, sobre la niñez, en especial la masculina; a saber, el filme Little Terrorist, una fotografía de Diane Arbus y las novelas El ejército iluminado de David Toscana y Loosing my Espanish de H.G. Carrillo. A partir de estos materiales, el trabajo discute la manera en que la cultura hegemónica sostiene una ley de valores que, amparada en la díada niñez inocencia, naturalizan la violencia.
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Literary Crossover in the Domingo del Monte Tertulia
This article charts the similarities between the first short story appearance in 1839 of what later became Cirilo Villaverde’s well-known nineteenth-century novel, Cecilia Valdés (1882), and Anselmo Suárez y Romero’s “Carlota Valdés” (1838). The study considers the circle of influence in Cuba for writers during this time period, focusing on the space of Domingo del Monte’s famed tertulia (the literary gathering in which the esclavo-poeta Juan Francisco Manzano was encouraged to finish his autobiography). Some of the questions the present study seeks to answer are: How can one assess the realm of influence surrounding literary gatherings such as del Monte’s tertulia? How do both Villaverde’s and Suárez y Romero’s short stories relate to Cuba’s nascent nationalism in the nineteenth century?
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Análisis del sujeto negro como sujeto político en dos obras de Alejo Carpentier: Écue-Yamba-Ó (1933) y El reino de este mundo (1949)
El presente trabajo reflexiona sobre el carácter del sujeto negro en dos obras de Alejo Carpentier: Écue-Yamba-Ó (1933) y El reino de este mundo (1949). Para esto se hace un recuento tanto de las tramas y los personajes de las obras, así como del contexto en el que fueron producidas, ciertos enfoques críticos sobre estas y algunas baterías teóricas tomadas desde las ciencias sociales y las humanidades. La finalidad de este artículo es entender diversos cambios acontecidos entre la producción de dichas obras, con énfasis en sus entendimientos del sujeto negro como sujeto político.
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Méditerranée / Caraïbe : du canon à l’archipel
L’article aborde quelques usages caribéens du canon littéraire européen et gréco-latin, en creusant l’image de la Méditerranée Caraïbe, ses possibles et ses écueils. Sont étudiés en particulier les dialogues intertextuels établis par Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott et Édouard Glissant avec la Méditerranée antique. Il s’agit de montrer que la diversité des relations construites par ces trois auteurs entre la Méditerranée et la Caraïbe dans leur poétique dépasse la simple subversion ou négation d’un canon gréco-latin d’abord érigé en source culturelle par les nations européennes et qu’elle invite à une lecture renouvelée, archipélique plutôt que canonique, des textes antiques. This paper focuses on how Caribbean texts engage with the European and classical canon and more precisely, with the image of the New World Mediterranean, an expansive and potentially treacherous parallel. The intertextual dialogues established by Alejo Carpentier, Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant with the Mediterranean Classics are scrutinized in order to show that the very diverse means of connecting the Mediterranean and the Caribbean go far beyond a mere subversion or negation of a classical canon originally complicit with the cultural/ national foundations of European nations. Caribbean poetics invite us to a reassessment of classical texts in ways which are more archipelagic than canonical.
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