Améfrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone (Hispanic Issues)

By: Paulette Ramsay and Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez and Michael Handelsman and Gloria Chacón and Ángela Castro and Eliseo Jacob and Isis Barra Costa and Juan Eduardo Wolf and Diana Rodríguez Quevedo and Mamadou Badiane

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Synopsis: Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker Lélia Gonzalez, Améfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin American mainland. To capture a sense of the variety of their contributions, this book spans Mexico, Central America, the Andes, and the Southern Cone—highlighting the transcontinental nature of the legacy of Black writing and its impact beyond national boundaries. The writers examined in the volume engage with regional intellectual frameworks while putting into circulation a demand for a recalibration of the Hispanophone and Lusophone contexts in which they and other Afrodescendants reside.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780826505156
Related ISBNs:: 9780826505132
Publisher:: Vanderbilt University Press
Date of Addition:: 12/12/22
Copyrighted By:: Vanderbilt University Press
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar