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 …

Abstract This book compares Cuban American and African American religiosity, arguing that
Afro-Cuban religiosity and culture are central to understanding the Cuban and Cuban …

ABSTRACT This article examines Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban in the co Cuban
history, politics, religion, literature, and culture both in Cub United States, where Cuban …

Costumbrismo, which refers to depictions of life in Latin America during the nineteenth
century, introduced some of the earliest black themes in Cuban literature. Rafael Ocasio …

“Traces the ways that Cuban poets dealt with issues of national identity, reflected in their
views of Afrocubanismo, often in response to historical changes in public and official …

The quest for freedom and self-determination in the circum-Caribbean is full of heroic and
incredible stories. In anglophone Caribbean literature and history, the indigenous presence …

This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island's writers,
scholars and artists." A rich portrait of AfroCuba—one of the most vibrant and least well …

Donald Matthews affirms once and for all the African foundation of African-American
religious practice. His analysis of the methods employed by historians, social scientists, and …

The recent publication of Edward J. Mullen's Afro-Cuban Literature: Critical Junctures and of
Richard Jackson's Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon has brought the question of canon …

ISLAS 73 terday they were slaves and now that the law give them the right to be brothers, so
we must treat them!”(Quoted on 200-201) Lane demonstrates an impressive familiarity with …