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Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony, is the only African country in which Spanish is an official language and which has a tradition of literature in Spanish. This is a study of the literature produced by the nation’s writers from 2007 to 2013. Since its independence in 1968, Equatorial Guinea has been ruled by dictators under whom ethnic differences have been exacerbated, poverty and violence have increased, and critical voices have been silenced. The result has been an exodus of intellectuals—including writers who express their national and exile experiences in their poems, plays, short stories, and novels. The writers discussed include Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo, and Guillermina Mekuy, among others.

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A much-needed study in the field. It updates and refreshes the scholarship on an aspect of Hispanic and African literary studies often relegated to the back burner. Alain Lawo-Sukam, Texas A&M University, author of <i>Hacia una poetica afro-colombiana: el caso del Pacifico</i>

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Marvin A. Lewis is professor emeritus in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He founded and directed the Afro-Romance Institute for Languages and Literatures of the African Diaspora and is the author of half a dozen books devoted to Afro-Hispanic literature. He lives in Columbia, MO.

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