Gerard Laurence Aching

Freedom from Liberation

Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gerard Aching is Professor of Africana and Romance Studies at Cornell University. He is author of The Politics of Spanish American Modernismo: By Exquisite Design and Masking and Power: Carnival and Popular Culture in the Caribbean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 537g
• ISBN-13: 9780253016935
• ISBN-10: 0253016932
• Artikelnr.: 41668094

Autorenporträt

Gerard Laurence Aching

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Liberalisms at Odds: Slavery and the Struggle for an Autochthonous
Literature.
2. In Spite of Himself: Unconscious Resistance and Melancholy Attachments
in Manzano's Autobiography.
3. Being Adequate to the Task: An Abolitionist Translates the Desire to Be
Free.
4. Freedom Without Equality: Slave Protagonists, Free Blacks, and Their
Bodies.
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Index