Freedom From Liberation - Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba

Informationen zum Autor Gerard Laurence Aching Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Liberalisms at Odds: Slavery and the Struggle for an Autochthonous Literature. 2. In Spite of Himself: Unconscious Resistance and Melancholy Attachments in Manzano's Autobiography. 3. Being Adequate to the Task: An Abolitionist Translates the Desire to Be Free. 4. Freedom Without Equality: Slave Protagonists, Free Blacks, and Their Bodies. Epilogue Appendix Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Gerard Aching, Gerard Laurence Aching, Aching Gerard Laurence
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780253016935
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01693-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Blacks in the Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous