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The Ashé-Caribbean literary aesthetic in the Cuban, Colombian, Costa Rican, and Panamanian novel of resistance
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"This book contributes to understanding the important role that African-influenced spiritual cultures play in literature that challenges the concept that European aesthetics are superior to African...
"This book contributes to understanding the important role that African-influenced spiritual cultures play in literature that challenges the concept that European aesthetics are superior to African-inspired cultures"--
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- Creator
- Thomas Wayne Edison
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2020]
- Physical Details
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- xvi, 297 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781498597470, 1498597475, 9781498597487, 9781498597487
- OCLC
- on1182513693
- This book is a substantial reworking of the author's dissertation titled The Afro-Caribbean Novel of Resistance: African Ontology in the Works of Alejo Carpentier, Quince Duncan, Carlos Guillermo Wilson, and Manuel Zapata Olivella.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- (De)constructing the darker image of Africa -- El reino de este mundo : the first Ashé-Cuban novel of resistance -- La paz del pueblo -- Cubena and Los nietos de Felicidad Dolores -- Manuel Zapara Olivella and Changó: el gran putas