Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

by Dorothy E. Mosby

In Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature , Dorothy E. Mosby investigates contemporary black writing from Costa Rica and argues that it reveals the story of a people formed by multiple migrations and cultural transformations. Afro-Costa Rican writers from different historical periods express their relation to place, language, and identity as a "process," a transformation partly due to sociohistorical circumstances and partly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082621472X
• ISBN13: 9780826214720
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.3"