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

by Matthew Pettway

Book Overview

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"