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Black writers and Latin America : cross-cultural affinities
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- Creator
- Richard L. Jackson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Washington, DC : Howard University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- viii, 207 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0882580396, 9780882580395
- OCLC
- ocm38886319
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-194) and index.
- U.S. Black writers and Spain. Spanish Civil War and its aftermath -- Black writer resident in Spain -- U.S. Black writers and Latin America. From Spain to Latin America -- Black "womanist" writer and Brazil -- Mexican interludes -- Impact of Cuba and Chile -- The influence of U.S. Black writers. Slave narratives -- Example of Langston Hughes -- Harlem and the Jazz Age: black modernism as model and threat -- From Wright to revolution -- From black power and the turbulent sixties to roots -- -- Hispanic Black writers and the United States. Racism and Black America -- Hispanic Black writer in the United States -- Black writers in Latin America today. From old guard to new -- Nancy Morejon, the "new woman" in Cuba, and the first generation of Black writers of the Revolution -- Black writers in Central America, the Dominican Republic, and South America -- Tradition and renewal -- Conclusion: Hispanic Black criticism and the North American perspective
Subjects
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
- Latin American literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
- Latin American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Comparative literature -- American and Latin American.
- Comparative literature -- Latin American and American.
- American literature -- Latin American influences.
- Latin American literature -- American influences.
- Black people -- Latin America -- Intellectual life.
- African Americans -- Intellectual life.