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Mayaya Rising
Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture
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Dawn Duke
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English
Published/Copyright:
2023
About this book
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin’s epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, “Miss Lizzie,” figures prominently in four anthologies from the country’s Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.
Author / Editor information
DAWN DUKE is a professor of Spanish and Portuguese and chair of Portuguese at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is the author of Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers (Bucknell), editor of A Escritora Afro-Brasileira: Ativismo e Arte Literária, and coeditor of Celluloid Chains: Slavery in the Americas through Film. She has published more than twenty-two articles and chapters.
Reviews
“Mayaya Rising tells the stories, and the stories of telling the stories, of an incredible set of previously ignored Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women. It makes clear the iconic potential of these women, the work that icons do, and the work it takes to productively iconize Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean women.”
— Keja Valens, author of Desire between Women in Caribbean Literature“Dawn Duke’s study of black women writers in the Hispanic Caribbean—its continental components included—breaks important new ground. Its intersectional stress on race and gender illuminates the path of authors who draw strength from feminist and anti-racist legacies owed to iconic ancestresses. The cultural and linguistic diversity of this literary corpus pulverizes homogenizing assumptions about ‘Spanish American’ literature.”
— Silvio Torres-Saillant, co-author of The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat“Mayaya Rising is a nuanced continuation of Duke’s 2008 work, Literary Passions, Ideological Commitment, wherein the author critically examines the nationalist practices that impede self-actualization of Black female historical representation in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, and Colombia. . . . That which Duke accomplishes with this work is critically establishing a female-centric revisionist history located within the contributions of Afro-descendant cultural practitioners whose literary, artistic, and activist endeavors continue to shape and enrich national narratives in these countries.”
— Antonio Tillis, editor of Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American LiteratureTopics
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 5, 2023
eBook ISBN:
9781684484423
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781684484423
Keywords for this book
Cuban music; Black poets in the Spanish-speaking Americas; Escrevivência; son cubano; Palenquera; Palenque de San Basilio; Benkos Bioho; Negritude; Afro-Hispanic literatura; Black historical experience; kuagros; Lumbalú; Catalina Loango; Afro-Cuban; Teodora and Micaela Ginés; Elizabeth Forbes Brooks; Miss Lizzie; Afro-Latin American women writers; Black women writers in Latin America; Afro-Latino Literature and Culture; Mayaya; May Pole; palo de mayo; Bluefields; Nicaragua; Son de la Ma Teodora; Afro-Colombian; Afro-Cuban women; Afro-descendant; Afro-Dominican; Afro-Latin American women; Afro-Latina; Afronegrismo; Afro-Nicaraguan; Aida Cartagena Portalatín; Caribbean; Conceição Evaristo; Creole; Cuba; Débora Almeida; Dominican Republic; el son Cubano; feminist; Georgina Herrera; griot; Latin America; Mel Adun; memory; Miriam Alves; Mujerismo; Mulherismo; Orishas; Oshun; Portuguese; rodas de poesia; Rubiera Castillo; Santos Febres; Spanish; Spanish Caribbean; womanist; Yalodés; Yania tierra; Yemayá
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
