INTRODUCTION. Fiction and Fact: The Antislavery Narrative and Blacks as Counter-Discourse in Cuban History

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. PREFACE ix
4. INTRODUCTION. Fiction and Fact: The Antislavery Narrative and Blacks as Counter-Discourse in Cuban History 1
5. ONE. The Antislavery Narrative: Writing and the European Aesthetic 27
6. TWO. Textual Multiplications Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia and Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes 82
7. THREE. Time in Fiction Francisco Calcagno's Rornualdo, uno de tantos and Aponte and Martin Morua Delgado's Sofia and La familia Unzuazu 120
8. FOUR. Historical Fictions Displacement and Change—Lino Novas Calvo's El negrero and Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of This 162
9. FIVE. I The Politics of Memory Miguel Barnet's The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave and Cesar Leante's Los guerrilleros negro 199
10. SIX. Present and Future Antislavery Narratives Reinaldo Arenas's Graveyard of the Angels 238
11. NOTES 249
12. BIBLIOGRAPHY 287
13. INDEX 303