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This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban, Dominican, Columbian, and Nicaraguan women writers, and the reception of their work by literary critics. Three literary case studies explore the archetypal regional figures of Teodora and Micaela Ginés, Miss Lizzie, and the palenqueras.
About the author
DAWN DUKE is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and chair of Portuguese at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers (Bucknell), editor of A Escritora Afro-Brasileira: Ativismo e Arte Literária, and coeditor of Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film. She has published more than twenty-two articles and chapters.
Summary
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally centre powerful female cultural archetypes.
