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Author:

Kornweibel, Karen, author.

Title:

Writing for inclusion : literature, race, and national identity in nineteenth-century Cuba and the United States / Karen Ruth Kornweibel.

Publisher:

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ;

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

x, 163 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

1800-1899
Cuban literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Cuban literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
National characteristics in literature.
Race in literature.
Comparative literature--Cuban and American.
Comparative literature--American and Cuban.
American literature.
American literature--African American authors.
Cuban literature.
Cuban literature--Black authors.
National characteristics in literature.
Race in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151 - 157) and index.

Contents:

Reflections on Afro-Cuban and African American discourses of identity -- Countering negation in Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass's early texts and patronage relationships -- Common narrative threads in the Autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano and narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave -- The discourse of the future citizen in the nonfiction of Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt -- Generating the future citizen in Morúa Delgado's Sofía and Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars.

Summary:

"Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martín Morúa Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1683930983
9781683930983
1683930991
9781683930990
1683930975
9781683930976

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1066193302

LCCN:

2018028884

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)