Autobiografía de un esclavo
Autobiografía de un esclavo

Author: Juan Francisco Manzano

Publisher: Editorial Verbum

Published: 2020-07-09

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 841337278X

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Autobiografía de un esclavo es el primer testimonio en castellano de la esclavitud sufrida en las colonias españolas del Nuevo Mundo. Por tanto, tiene un gran valor histórico, a pesar de estar inacabada porque la segunda parte -Apuntes autobiográficos- no se conserva, por ser considerada una obra clave de la narrativa antiesclavista y del periodo colonial. Salió a la luz en 1937, una centuria después de que se comenzara a escribir en 1835 por Juan Francisco Manzano. En esta Autobiografía, Manzano relata su vida en la esclavitud y todo lo que ello supone cuando sirve a su primera ama, Beatriz de Jústiz de Santa, quien gracias a su aperturismo consigue leer numerosas obras y aprender a escribir; o cuando sirve en casa de la marquesa de Prado Ameno, una señora autoritaria que provoca su huida.

The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave
The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave

Author: J. Manzano

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1137481382

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This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures.

Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection
Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

Author: Matthew Pettway

Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

Published: 2019-12-30

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1496825004

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Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) 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, Plácido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution. Plácido and Manzano envisioned emancipation through the lens of African spirituality, a transformative moment in the history of Cuban letters. Matthew Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy. The portrayal of African-Atlantic religious ideas spurned the elite rationale that literature ought to be a barometer of highbrow cultural progress. Cuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite. Pettway’s emphasis on African-inspired spirituality as a source of knowledge and a means to sacred authority for black Cuban writers deepens our understanding of Manzano and Plácido not as mere imitators but as aesthetic and political pioneers. As Pettway suggests, black Latin American authors did not abandon their African religious heritage to assimilate wholesale to the Catholic Church. By recognizing the wisdom of African ancestors, they procured power in the struggle for black liberation.

Juan Francisco Manzano - Autobiografía de un Esclavo
Juan Francisco Manzano - Autobiografía de un Esclavo

Author: Juan Francisco Manzano

Publisher: Lebooks Editora

Published: 2024-07-01

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13: 655894569X

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"Autobiografía de un Esclavo" fue una de las varias obras escritas por Juan Francisco Manzano en su vida y fue publicada en 1840. Esta obra es una autobiografía poderosa y reveladora, donde Manzano narra su viaje desde la esclavitud hacia la libertad, ofreciendo una visión íntima y profunda de su vida y de las condiciones que enfrentaban los esclavizados en Cuba. A lo largo del tiempo, se han escrito y continúan escribiéndose varias biografías sobre este icónico poeta y ex esclavo, con una calidad y amplitud cada vez mayores. Sin embargo, para conocer el pensamiento y el modo de ser de una persona real, no hay nada mejor que escuchar la historia con todas sus circunstancias, errores y aciertos contada por quien las vivió en primera persona. Este es el propósito de esta autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano: llevar al público al hombre valiente y visionario, que, a través de su perseverancia e inteligencia, se convirtió en una de las voces más influyentes en la lucha por la libertad y los derechos de los afrodescendientes en América Latina. Esta obra forma parte de la colección "Voces hispánicas", que tiene como objetivo destacar las historias de vida de figuras importantes en la historia hispanoamericana, contadas por ellos mismos.

Writing for Inclusion
Writing for Inclusion

Author: Karen Ruth Kornweibel

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-09-15

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1683930983

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Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt from the post-slavery period. All four share sensitivity to their imperfect inclusion as full citizens, engage in an examination of the process of racialization that hinders them in seeking such inclusion, and contest their definition as non-citizens. Works discussed include the slave narratives of Manzano and Douglass, Manzano’s poetry and play Zafira, andDouglass’s oratory and novella The Heroic Slave. Also considered, within the context provided by Manzano and Douglass, are Morúa and Chesnutt’s non-fiction writings about race and nation as well as their second-generation “tragic mulata” novels Sofía and The House Behind the Cedars. Based on an examination of the works of these four authors, Writing for Inclusion provides a detailed examination of examples of self-emancipation, the authors’ symbolic use of language, their expression of social anxieties or irony within the quest for recognition, and their arguments for an inclusive vision of national identity beyond the quagmires of race. By focusing on the process of racialization and ideas of race and national identity in a comparative context, the study seeks to highlight the artificial and contested nature of both terms and suggest new ways to interrogate them in our present day.

From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America
From Romanticism to Modernismo in Latin America

Author: David William Foster

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780815326793

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This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire
Slavery and the Forensic Theatricality of Human Rights in the Spanish Empire

Author: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2023-06-24

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3031315316

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This book is a study of the forensic theatricality of human rights claims in literary texts about slavery in the sixteenth and the nineteenth century in the Spanish Empire. The book centers on the question: how do literary texts use theatrical, multisensorial strategies to denunciate the violence against enslaved people and make a claim for their rights? The Spanish context is particularly interesting because of its early tradition of human rights thinking in the Salamanca School (especially Bartolomé de Las Casas), developed in relation to slavery and colonialism. Taking its point of departure in forensic aesthetics, the book analyzes five forms of non-narrative theatricality: allegorical, carnivalesque, tragicomic, melodramatic and tragic.

Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae
Alexander von Humboldt's Transatlantic Personae

Author: Vera Kutzinski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-11

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1317977513

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Who was Alexander von Humboldt? Was he really a lone genius? Was he another European apologist for colonialism in the Americas or the father of Latin American independence? Was he a roving Romanticist, or did his sensibilities belong to the Enlightenment? Naturalist, philosopher, historian, and proto-sociologist--to name just some of the fields to which he contributed--, Humboldt is impossible to contain in a single identity or definition. His voluminous writings range across so many different fields of knowledge that his scholarly-scientific personae multiplied even during his lifetime, and they have continued to proliferate since his death in 1859. A household word throughout the nineteenth century, Humboldt was eventually eclipsed by Charles Darwin (whose own travels had been motivated by Humboldt’s) and disappeared from view for much of the twentieth century, notably in the United States. The essays in this collection testify to the renewed interest that Alexander von Humboldt’s multi-faceted work is inspiring in the twenty-first century, especially among cultural and literary historians from both sides of the Atlantic. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.