Writing for Inclusion : Literature, Race, and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Cuba and the United States.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Reflections on Afro-Cuban and African American Discourses of Identity -- 2 Countering Negation in Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass's Early Texts and Patronage Relationships -- 3 Common Narrative Threads in the Autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave -- 4 The Discourse of the Future Citizen in the Nonfiction of Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt -- 5 Generating the Future Citizen in Morúa Delgado's Sofía and Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martín Morúa Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity.

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