Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment

by Dawn Duke

This study examines Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian women writers, as well as analyzing the roles of women of African descent in Cuban and Brazilian literature. Initially, literary imagination locked women into circumscribed roles, a result of hierarchies embedded in slavery and coloniality, and sustained by hierarchical theories on race and gender. The discussion illustrates how these negative aspects have influenced the mainstream literary imagination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611483034
• ISBN13: 9781611483031
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"