Blacks in Hispanic literature
Subtitle: [critical essays]
By: edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Publisher: Imprint Editions
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781580730440
Subjects: Blacks in literature; Spanish literature; Spanish American literature; History and criticism
Notes: "New introduction and bibliographic essay: Afro-Hispanic literature since 1977-selected works".

"New introduction and bibliographic essay by the author"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The eye of the other: images of the Black in Spanish literature  -- Sylvia Wynter; title: Afro-Arabs, Blackamoors and Blacks: an inquiry into race concepts through Spanish literature  -- Martha Cobb; title: The Negro in Spanish literature to the end of the Siglo de Oro  -- Howard M. Jason; title: Attitudes of the Iberian Peninsula (in literature)  -- Carter G. Woodson; title: The Negro in Spanish literature  -- Valaurez B. Spratlin; title: African footprints in Hispanic-American literature  -- John F. Matheus; title: The concept of Black awareness as a thematic approach to Latin American literature  -- Antonio Olliz Boyd; title: Negritude in Latin American culture  -- Adalberto Ortiz; title: Fact from fiction: another look at slavery in three Spanish American novels  -- Shirley M. Jackson; title: La poesia negra: its background, themes and significance  -- Leslie Wilson; title: The image of the Black man in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén  -- Constance Sparrow de García Barrio; title: Social lyricism and the Caribbean poet/rebel  -- Miriam DeCosta; title: El tema negro: the nature of primitivism in the poetry of Luis Palés Matos --; title: The Black woman in Afro-Caribbean poetry -- Ann Venture Young.