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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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El teatro cubano colonial y la caracterización lingüístico-cultural de sus personajes
El presente libro se centra en el estudio de la extremadamente rica y variada caracterización lingüístico-cultural en la literatura dramática cubana del período colonial. Esta tomó en cuenta todos los niveles de la lengua, de acuerdo con la ascendencia lingüístico-cultural y la procedencia lingüístico-regional que se quería achacar a cada uno de los personajes. En todos los casos, el medio de comunicación fue la lengua española, en sus modalidades metropolitana o cubana, de acuerdo con la intención del autor, además de tomar en consideración especificidades regionales y socioculturales propias del país o de la procedencia no cubana que se quería asignar a los personajes. [Texto de la editorial].
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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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Gothic Geoculture: Nineteenth-Century Representations of Cuba in the Transamerican Imaginary
Corruptive gothicscapes: William Cullen Bryant's Letters of a traveller and Nathaniel Parker Willis's Health trip to the Tropics -- Gothicized souths: Martin R. Delany's Blake, or The huts of America and Louisa May Alcott's 'Pauline's passion and punishment' -- Transgressive hauntings: Sophia Peabody's Cuba journal and Mary Peabody Mann's Juanita: a romance of real life in Cuba fifty years ago -- Gothic emplotments: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Vald's and the story of Evangelina Cisneros, told by herself -- 'Inside the monster': José Martí's decolonial transamericanity -- Conclusion: Decolonizing the gothic.
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Black Poets and Ancestral Cultural Expressions in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Cuba
Blacks in Latin America and the Caribbean have contributed to all aspects of the national cultures of their countries of provenance, even though in each of their respective geographic locations there has been a concerted societal effort to diminish and even silence their voices.1 Regardless of the physical, social, racial, psychological, and cultural reasons for the actions taken against them, black intellectuals and their ancestral and cultural expressions continue to persist as a voice of opposition and resistance against an historical trauma that has denied them an historical narrative. Authors and their works are engaged in a form of historical and cultural healing, of revisiting, confronting, and accepting the past in order to move forward and provide meaning to their lives. Black writers, like the ones I propose to study, have left an indelible mark on Cuba's national culture in every period, from its beginnings to the present.3 Juan Francisco Manzano and the Anti-slavery Movement The creation of Cuban-style culture can be traced to the works of the poet Juan Francisco Manzano, the first and only enslaved person in Latin America to pen his own autobiography. Manzano uses the female voice, a delicate figure known to many readers and less threatening than her male counterpart, to denounces the master's inhuman treatment that defies natural law, a reference to the \"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.\"
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Drowned African Bodies
When speaking about the ship as a trope in Cuban culture, its relationship with drowned Africans and illegal migration is expressed in a wider sense: it constantly draws attention to different narrative metaphors and images. In the following, I will link this practice of depicting and creating this trope to a rather unorthodox part of the cultural history of Cuba, which indicates significant moments on the international political stage in the nineteenth century and in the years at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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Miedo negro, poder blanco en la Cuba colonial
Este libro destaca cómo, junto con el temor de que se produjera una rebelión de esclavos semejante a la de Haití, se originaron otras fobias en Cuba que incidieron en la manera en que los letrados se refirieron a la esclavitud, a la raza africana y a la cultura criolla en general, y cómo tales temores sirvieron como concepto básico para construir la nación. [Texto de la editorial].
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Una comunidad de dolientes
Desde finales del siglo XVIII la elite criolla cubana comienza un proceso de modernización de la industria azucarera que produce un gran auge económico en Cuba. Se introducen una gran cantidad de esclavos africanos y nuevas tecnologías que, en conjunto con la destrucción de la industria azucarera en Haití, convierten a Cuba en uno de los principales países exportadores de azúcar del mundo. En este contexto se crean instituciones y revistas como la de la Real Sociedad Patriótica y El papel periódico de la Habana que se preocupan por el mejoramiento y adelanto material y educacional de la población. En este momento, el estudio de la historia se convierte también en un objetivo principal. Se crea una comisión conformada por importantes letrados como Domingo del Monte y Manuel González del Valle, que buscaba abrir los archivos, mostrar al mundo una imagen más detallada de Cuba, y corregir los errores que otros historiadores habían cometido al escribir su historia (Del Monte, \"Introducción\" ii). Con esto, los patricios cubanos tratan de controlar el discurso sobre la memoria insular, delimitar los márgenes en los cuales podía producirse ese conocimiento y las autoridades a las que los letrados podían recurrir.Este discurso sobre el pasado y la identidad implicaba necesariamente hablar de los primeros habitantes de la isla: los indígenas, cuyas vidas son retomadas a partir de este momento por los independentistas o reformistas cubanos para criticar a España. En lo que sigue por tanto me interesa llamar la atención a cómo los poetas de esta generación de letrados criollos recuerdan la muerte de los indígenas en lugares específicos de la isla como el río Yumurí, que se convierte a partir de la novela de Ramón de Palma en un lugar de referencias lúgubres, en un espacio marcado por sus muertes injustas a manos de los españoles.
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Independencias no simultáneas, memorias coloniales encontradas: la crítica literaria \... de patria dudosa ...\ de Rafael María Merchán (1844-1905)/Non-simultaneous Independences and the Meeting of Colonial Memories: The Literary Criticism \... de patria dudosa ...\ of Rafael María Merchán (1844-1905)
This article contributes to the history of Cuban and Colombian literary criticism at the end of the 19th century. It analyzes Rafael María Merchán's Estudios críticos (1886), written and published during the author's exile in Colombia, and suggests that this kind of transnational Cuban-Colombian-Spanish American corpus is positioned within, and is the result of, the negotiations between coloniality and post-coloniality in the late 19th century. Its findings show that the important critical legacy of Merchan - trapped between the tangles of Cuba's colonial situation and a post-colonial, post-independent Colombia - constitutes an unclaimed inheritance in the history of Spanish American (and especially Cuban and Colombian) literature. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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