Manuel Zapata Olivella and the "Darkening" of Latin American Literature (Afro-Romance Writers)
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: July 21, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780826215789
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Colombia; Caribbean & Latin American; Criticism and interpretation; Blacks in literature; Zapata Olivella, Manuel
First sentence: Tierra mojada (1942) begins the literary trajectory of Manuel Zapata Olivella, Afro-Colombian medical doctor, scholar, anthropologist, and one of the most gifted writers of the Spanish-speaking African diaspora.