Améfrica in Letters

Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-8265-0513-2
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Hispanic Issues

The present historical moment is allowing Black peoples and scholars of Afrodescendance to produce timely discussions of narratives about Blackness, language, and ideas across the western hemisphere. Despite research interventions in the disciplines of history, anthropology, and sociology, however, there is a relative paucity of research on Black letters in Latin American contexts.

One reason for this lack of research is that the Latin American literary “canon” does indeed include a handful of Afrodescendant writers—we know, for example, that the seminal poet Rubén DarÍo was an Afrodescendant, and Nicolás Guillén’s poetry is included in virtually any literary anthology. A different reason, and the driving force behind this anthology, is that the themes of the great Black writers who have been ignored fall outside canonical themes. Améfrica in Letters brings together new research on Black literary history in the crucial period of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century—a period that saw the consolidation of Black power movements and human rights struggles across the Americas.

The Black writers examined here have left an enduring legacy in nuestra América, particularly in mainland Latin America—even while their prose and poetry challenge the overarching theme of mestizo-imagined multiculturalism that endures in Latin America’s publishing industry.

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Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Black Writing on AmÉfrica’s Mainland: Disruptions to the Prose of Multiculturalism Jennifer Carolina GÓmez MenjÍvar
- Part I: AmÉfrica’s Poetics
- 1. Language and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Afro-Mexican Corridos or Ballads Paulette A. Ramsay
- 2. A Post-Ethnic/Racial Futurescape in Wingston GonzÁlez’s cafeina MC   Juan Guillermo SÁnchez MartÍnez
- 3. Antonio Preciado: Ecuador’s Afrocentric Poet Michael Handelsman
- Part II: Lettered Outliers
- 4. Transatlantic Routing and Rooting in Quince Duncan’s Kimbo  Gloria E. ChacÓn
- 5. The Palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian Woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera’s Camino a Mariato   Ángela Castro
- 6. Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva’s #Parem de nÓs matar   Eliseo Jacob
- Part III: Intellectual Sonar
- 7. Other Forests: The Afro-Brazilian Literary Archive Isis Barra Costa
- 8. Coloniality Via the Vocabulary of Afro-Chilean Music-Dance Juan Eduardo Wolf
- 9. Xiomara Cacho Caballero: Linguistic Revitalization on Central America’s Narco Islands Jennifer Carolina GÓmez MenjÍvar
- 10. Reclaiming Lands, Identity, and Autonomy: Rap Lyrics in Rural ChocÓ, Colombia Diana RodrÍguez Quevedo
- Afterword Mamadou Badiane
- List of Contributors
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer C. GÓmez MenjÍvar is an associate professor at the University of North Texas.