Mayaya rising : Black female icons in Latin American and Caribbean literature and culture /
"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 po...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglés |
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Lewisburg, PA :
Bucknell University Press,
[2023]
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| Acceso en liña: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18427169 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The fundamentals of glory
- A Cuban/Dominican case study. Teodora and Micaela Ginés: myth or history?
- The invention of history through poetry: a Dominican initiative
- A Nicaraguan case study. Tracing the dance steps of a "British" subject: Miss Lizzie's palo de mayo
- From "Mayaya Las Im Key" to Creole women's writings
- A Colombian case study. Rituals of alegría and ponchera: the enterprising palenqueras
- Palenquera writings: a twenty-first Century movement.