Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers
by Miriam Decosta-Willis
Publication Date: Jan 01, 2003
List Price: $36.00
Format: Paperback, 554 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9789766370770
Imprint: Ian Randle Publishers
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Parent Company: Ian Randle Publishers
Paperback Description:
Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions. Miriam DeCosta-Willis’s comprehensive Introduction, biographical sketches of the authors and their chronological arrangement within the text, provide an accessible history of the evolution of an Afra-Hispanic literary tradition in the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America. The book will be useful as textbook in courses in Africana Studies, Women’s Studies, Caribbean, Latina and Latin American Studies as well as courses in literature and the humanities.
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