TY - GEN T1 - Mayaya rising : Black female icons in Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture A1 - Duke, Dawn, 1965- LA - English PP - Lewisburg, PA PB - Bucknell University Press YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1351752690 AB - "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 center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin's epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, "Miss Lizzie," figures prominently in four anthologies from the country's Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record"-- OP - 272 CN - PQ7081.5 .D85 2023 SN - 1684484421 SN - 9781684484386 SN - 1684484383 SN - 9781684484409 SN - 1684484405 SN - 9781684484416 SN - 1684484413 SN - 9781684484423 SN - 1684484391 SN - 9781684484393 KW - Women, Black, in literature. KW - Latin American literature : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Latin American literature : Black authors : History and criticism. KW - Caribbean literature : Women authors : History and criticism. KW - Caribbean literature : Black authors : History and criticism. KW - Latin America : Civilization : African influences. KW - Caribbean Area : Civilization : African influences. KW - Noires dans la littérature. KW - Littérature latino-américaine : Auteurs noirs : Histoire et critique. KW - Littérature antillaise : Auteurs noirs : Histoire et critique. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : General. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - Women, Black, in literature KW - Latin American literature : Women authors KW - Latin American literature : Black authors KW - Civilization : African influences KW - Caribbean literature : Women authors KW - Caribbean literature : Black authors KW - Latin America KW - Caribbean Area KW - Cuban music, Black poets in the Spanish-speaking Americas, Escrevivência, son cubano, Palenquera, Palenque de San Basilio, Benkos Bioho, Negritude, Afro-Hispanic literatura, Black historical experience, kuagros, Lumbalú, Catalina Loango, Afro-Cuban, Teodora and Micaela Ginés, Elizabeth Forbes Brooks, Miss Lizzie, Afro-Latin American women writers, Black women writers in Latin America, Afro-Latino Literature and Culture, Mayaya, May Pole, palo de mayo, Bluefields, Nicaragua, Son de la Ma Teodora, Afro-Colombian, Afro-Cuban women, Afro-descendant, Afro-Dominican, Afro-Latin American women, Afro-Latina, Afronegrismo, Afro-Nicaraguan, Aida Cartagena Portalatín, Caribbean, Conceição Evaristo, Creole, Cuba, Débora Almeida, Dominican Republic, el son Cubano, feminist, Georgina Herrera, griot, Latin America, Mel Adun, memory, Miriam Alves, Mujerismo, Mulherismo, Orishas, Oshun, Portuguese, rodas de poesia, Rubiera Castillo, Santos Febres, Spanish, Spanish Caribbean, womanist, Yalodés, Yania tierra, Yemayá. KW - Electronic books. KW - Literary criticism KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -