Afro-Uruguayan literature
Subtitle: post-colonial perspectives
By: Marvin A. Lewis.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lewisburg, [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Uruguayan literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.; Uruguayan literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Uruguayan literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Blacks -- Uruguay -- Social life and customs.; Postcolonialism in literature.
Description: "This study is about representation and resistance in Afro-Uruguayan culture: representation primarily through literary expression in black periodicals, and resistance to total domination by the majority Euroentric culture through popular expression associated with the African heritage. This book explores the manner in which Afro-Uruguayans defined, and continue to affirm, their "place" in a country in which societal and self perceptions were/are constantly shifting. This is a continuing process to which the written record holds the key. It has been common knowledge among literary historians that Afro-Uruguayans published a number of periodicals beginning as early as 1872. It is only now, however, with recent discoveries in the National Library in Montevideo that the extent of this production has become evident. It is primarily through these periodicals, the focus here, that much of the cultural legacy of Afro-Uruguayans can be reconstructed."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-168) and index.
Table of contents: title: Place and displacement in Afro-Uruguayan discourse; title: Periodicals in the development of Afro-Uruguayan culture : the rise and fall of black journalism; title: Afro-Uruguayan drum culture : "comparsa," "carnaval," "candombre"; title: Resistance and identity in Afro-Uruguayan poetry; title: Jorge Emilio Cardoso and the Afro-Uruguayan dramatic tradition; title: Richard Pi-eyro : the Afro-Uruguayan writer as invisible man.