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.
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.
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.
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Introduction: The Fundamentals of Glory PART I A Cuban/Dominican Case Study 1 Teodora and Micaela Ginés: Myth or History? 2 The Invention of History through Poetry: A Dominican Initiative PART II A Nicaraguan Case Study 3 Tracing the Dance Steps of a British Subject: Miss Lizzie s Palo de Mayo 4 From Mayaya las im key to Creole Women s Writings PART III A Colombian Case Study 5 Rituals of Alegría and Ponchera: The Enterprising Palenqueras 6 Palenquera Writings: A Twenty-First-Century Movement Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Introduction: The Fundamentals of Glory PART I A Cuban/Dominican Case Study 1 Teodora and Micaela Ginés: Myth or History? 2 The Invention of History through Poetry: A Dominican Initiative PART II A Nicaraguan Case Study 3 Tracing the Dance Steps of a British Subject: Miss Lizzie s Palo de Mayo 4 From Mayaya las im key to Creole Women s Writings PART III A Colombian Case Study 5 Rituals of Alegría and Ponchera: The Enterprising Palenqueras 6 Palenquera Writings: A Twenty-First-Century Movement Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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