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Améfrica in letters : literary interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone

Title
Améfrica in letters : literary interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone / edited by Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar ; afterword by Mamadou Badiane.
ISBN
9780826505132
0826505139
9780826505149
0826505147
9780826505156
9780826505163
Publication
Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Physical Description
x, 258 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Access and use
British Library not licensed to copy 0.
Summary
"This book examines the work and influence of under-studied Black writers in Latin America"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Améfrica in letters Nashville, Tennessee : Vanderbilt University Press, [2022]
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 10, 2023
Series
Hispanic issues ; [46].
Hispanic issues ; [46]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Black writing on Améfrica's mainland: disruptions to the prose of multiculturalism / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Améfrica's poetics. Language and the construction of gendered identities in Afro-Mexican corridos or ballads / Paulette A. Ramsay
A post-ethnic/racial futurescape in Wingston González's cafeina MC / Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez
Antonio Preciado: Ecuador's Afrocentric poet / Michael Handelsman
Lettered outliers. Transatlantic routing and rooting in Quince Duncan's Kimbo / Gloria E. Chacón
The palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera's Camino a Mariato / Ángela Castro
Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva's #Parem de nós matar / Eliseo Jacob
Intellectual sonar. Other forests: the Afro-Brazilian literary archive / Isis Barra Costa
Dismantling coloniality via the vocabulary of Afro-Chilean music-dance / Juan Eduardo Wolf
Xiomara Cacho Caballero: linguistic revitalization on Central America's Narco Islands / Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Reclaiming lands, identity, and autonomy: rap lyrics in rural Chocó, Colombia / Diana Rodríguez Quevedo.
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Essays.
Citation

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