Freedom from liberation slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba
By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has s...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press
[2015]
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| Colección: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35857845*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature
- In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano's autobiography
- Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free
- Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies
- Epilogue.
