Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America.

Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Altar, the Oath, and the Body of Christ: Ritual Poetics and Cuban Racial Politics of 1844 -- 2. Seeking Acceptance from the Society and the State: Poems from Cuba's Black Press, 1882-1889 -- 3. Imagining the "New Black Subject": Ethical Transformations and Raciality in the Post-Revolutionary Cuban Nation -- 4. Realism in Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Drama -- 5. Bojayá in Colombian Theater: Kilele: A Drama of Memory and Resistance -- 6. Uprising Textualities of the Americas: Slavery, Migration, and the Nation in Contemporary Afro-Hispanic Women's Narrative -- 7. Disrobing Narcissus: Race, Difference, and Dominance (Mayra Santos Febres's Nuestra Señora de la noche Revisits the Puerto Rican National Allegory) -- 8. Bilingualism, Blackness, and Belonging: The Racial and Generational Politics of Linguistic Transnationalism in Panama -- 9. Racial Consciousness, Place, and Identity in Selected Afro-Mexican Oral Poems -- 10. Afro-Uruguayan Culture and Legitimation: Candombe and Poetry -- 11. Quilombismo and the Afro-Brazilian Quest for Citizenship -- 12. (W)riting Collective Memory (De)spite State: Decolonial Practices of Existence in Ecuador -- Contributors -- Index.

A thorough and in-depth look at Afro-Hispanic cultural life in Latin America.

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