Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion

(Part of the Caribbean Studies Series Series)

by Matthew Pettway

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Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepci n Vald s (Pl cido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, Pl cido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1496825012

ISBN13:9781496825018

Release Date:December 2019

Publisher:University Press of Mississippi

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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