Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel : Blackness, Religion, Immigration Hardback
by Professor Bonnie S. (Customer) Bonnie Wasserman
Part of the Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora series
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Explores the dimensions of the coming-of-age novel in the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Brazil, focusing on works by eight major Afro-Latin American writersThe centuries-old European genre of the coming-of-age story has been transformed by contemporary Afro-Latin American novelists to address key aspects of the diaspora in various nations of the Caribbean and Latin America.
While attention to Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian literature has increased in recent decades, few critics have focused specifically on the Afro-Latin American Bildungsroman, and fewer still have addressed novels from both Spanish- and Brazilian-speaking regions, as author Bonnie Wasserman does in this study. The memory and continuing impact of slavery especially shape these coming-of-age stories.
Often interwoven with race is a focus on religion, particularly the importance of African folk religions and traditions in the lives of young people.
Immigration-and the return journey-is another important theme in the novels. Coming of Age in the Afro-Latin American Novel discusses works&emdash;all published around the turn of the 21st century&emdash;by such important writers as Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa and Mayra Santos-Febres (from Puerto Rico), Conceição Evaristo and Paulo Lins (from Brazil); Teresa Cardenas and Pedro Pérez Sarduy (from Cuba); and Junot Diaz and Rita Indiana (from the Dominican Republic).
Wasserman's far-reaching analysis is both rigorous and compassionate, shedding a clear light on ways in which descendants of Africans have experienced life in the New World.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:03/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781648250286
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication Date:03/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781648250286
