Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar ,
Paulette Ramsay ,
Juan Guillermo Sánchez Martínez ,
Michael Handelsman
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Imprint: Vanderbilt University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 22.80cm
Weight: 0.234kg
ISBN: 9780826505149
ISBN 10: 0826505147
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 30 October 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography. -Jerome C. Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings
Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography. --Jerome C. Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings
"Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography.""—Jerome C. Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings"
Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography.""—Jerome C. Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings
Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography. --Jerome Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings
Author Information
Jennifer C. GÓmez MenjÍvar is an associate professor at the University of North Texas.
