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 surfaced to date, Manzano's autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano's text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, whe…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-253-01705-5
- EAN: 9780253017055
- Produktnummer: 20454105
- Verlag: Indiana University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 262 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'725 KB
Über den Autor
Gerard Aching is Professor of Africana and Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design and Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean.
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