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.
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.
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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