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03365aam a2200397 i 4500 001 3539F58A5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 003 SILO 005 20200303010150 008 190920t20202020msua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019034312 020 $a 1496824962 020 $a 9781496824967 020 $a 1496825012 020 $a 9781496825018 035 $a (OCoLC)1099276343 040 $a MsSM/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ7377 P48 2020 100 1 $a Pettway, Matthew $e author. 245 10 $a Cuban literature in the age of black insurrection : $b Manzano, PlaÌcido, and Afro-Latino religion / $c Matthew Pettway. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c 2020. 300 $a xiv, 325 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Caribbean studies series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la ConcepcioÌn ValdeÌs (PlaÌcido) 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, PlaÌcido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution. African religious knowledge subverted official Catholic dogma about redemptive suffering that might free the soul but leave the body enchained. Rather, PlaÌcido 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 PlaÌcido'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 PlaÌcido 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Manzano, Juan Francisco, $d 1797-1854. 600 00 $a PlaÌcido, $d 1809-1844. 650 0 $a Cuban literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Cuban literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Cuban literature $x Religious aspects. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Pettway, Matthew, $t Cuban literature in the age of black insurrection $d Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2019. $z 9781496824981 $w (DLC) 2019034313 830 0 $a Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.) 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200402015833.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3539F58A5D1D11EA9B49BA2197128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search