| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Blacks in the diaspora
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature -- In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano's autobiography -- Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free -- Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano's autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano's text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba's Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854. Autobiografía.
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Autobiografía (Manzano, Juan Francisco) |
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Enslaved persons -- Cuba -- Biography.
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Enslaved persons. |
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Cuba. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Slavery -- Cuba -- History -- 19th century.
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Slavery. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aching, Gerard. Freedom from liberation 9780253016935 (DLC) 2015006243 (OCoLC)894026179 |
| ISBN |
9780253017055 (electronic book) |
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025301705X (electronic book) |
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9780253016935 |
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0253016932 |
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