Daughters of the Diaspora: Afra-Hispanic Writers

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Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics.

By: Miriam DeCosta-Willis 

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Daughters of the Diaspora features the creative writing of 20 Hispanophone women of African descent, as well as the interpretive essays of 15 literary critics. The collection is unique in its combination of genres, including poetry, short stories, essays, excerpts from novels and personal narratives, many of which are being translated into English for the first time. They address issues of ethnicity, sexuality, social class and self-representation and in so doing shape a revolutionary discourse that questions and subverts historical assumptions and literary conventions. 

Miriam DeCosta-Willis’s comprehensive Introduction, biographical sketches of the authors and their chronological arrangement within the text, provide an accessible history of the evolution of an Afra-Hispanic literary tradition in the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America. 

The book will be useful as textbook in courses in Africana Studies, Women’s Studies, Caribbean, Latina and Latin American Studies as well as courses in literature and the humanities. 

Additional information

Weight 2 lbs
Dimensions 9 × 6 in
ISBN

978-976-637-077-0

Binding

Paperback

Page Count

563

Publication date

2003

About the Author

Miriam DeCosta-Willis is a specialist in Afro-Hispanic, African American, Caribbean and Spanish American literatures. She is a former professor of Africana Studies at the University of Maryland; Commonwealth Professor of Spanish at George Mason University and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages at Howard University. Among her many published works are the bestselling Erotique Noir/Black Erotica and the critically-acclaimed The Memphis Diary of Ida B. Wells

Contents

Virginia Brindis De Salas (1908–1958)

Hallelujah!

Pregón Number One

The Conga 

The Unmasking of Virginia Brindis de Salas: Minority

Discourse of Afro-Uruguay 

Caroll Mills Young

 

Carmen Colón Pellot (b.1911)

Oh Lord, I Want to be White!

Roots of Mulata Envy

The Land is a Mulatto Woman

‘Oh Lord, I Want to be White’: The Ambivalence of Mulatez in Carmen Colón Pellot’s Ambar mulatto

Claudette Williams

 

Julia De Burgos (1914–1953)

Cry of the Kinky Haired Girl

Rio Grande de Loíza

To Julia de Burgos

Pentachrome

Letters to Her Sister Consuelo 

‘ I am the Life, the Strength, the Woman’: Feminism in Julia de Burgos’ Autobiographical Poetry

Consuelo López Springfield

 

Aida Cartagena Portalatín (1918–1994)

Black Autumn

A Woman is Alone

Wasted Effort

 Aida Cartagena Portalatín: A Literary Life. Moca, Dominican Republic, 1918–94

Daisy Cocco de Filippis

 

Marta Rojas (b.1931)

The Sweet Enigma of a Writer’s Life: A Personal

Narrative

From Holy Lust or White Papers

Marta Rojas’s Santa lujuria and the Transformation of Cuban History in Mythic Fiction

Miriam DeCosta-Willis

 

Eulalia Bernard (b.1935)

Now That I am Yours Limón

We

What Fi Do?

‘Our Weapon is Strong Language’: A Conversation with Eulalia Bernard

Shirley Jackson

 

Eulalia Bernard: A Caribbean Woman Writer and the Dynamics of Liberation

Ian I. Smart

 

Georgina Herrera (b. 1936)

Street of the Women of the World

First Time in Front of a Mirror 

Ibu Sedi

‘The Lion’s Version of the Jungle’: A Conversation with Georgina Herrera

Linda S. Howe

 

Toward a Definition of the Self in the Poetry of Georgina Herrera

Gabriel A. Abudu

 

Lourdes Casal (1938–1981)

For Ana Veldford

Profile of My City

Identity and the Politics of (Dis)Location in Lourdes Casal’s

I Live in Cuba

The Founders: Alfonso

Narratives of Place

Miriam DeCosta-Willis

 

Argentina Chiriboga (b. 1940)

from The Backcover of Desire: 

…Untitled: ‘Changó and Yemayá go by’

…Untitled: ‘Let my braid loose’

…Untitled: ‘On these avenues’

from Drums Under My Skin

The Poetics and Politics of Desire: Eroticism in Luz

Argentina Chiriboga’s Bajo la piel de los tambores

Miriam DeCosta-Willis

 

Nancy Morejón (b. 1944)

Ana Mendieta

Lady of the Unicorn 

Persona

from Myth and Reality in Cecilia Valdés

An Aesthetic of Women’s Art in Nancy Morejón’s ‘Ana Mendieta’

Miriam DeCosta-Willis

 

Excilia Saldaña (1946–1999)

Autobiography

from My Name (A Family Anti-Elegy)

The Zeal for Self-Denomination in the Poetic Works of Excilia Saldaña

Flora M. González

 

Beatriz Santos (b. 1947)

Black Griot

Fire 

Chulin’s Fantasy

Tia Coca

 

María Nsué Angüe (b. 1948)

from Ekomo 

Writing from the Soul: A Conversation with María Nsué Angüe

M’baré N’Gom

Narrative of a Woman’s Life and Writing: María Nsué Angüe’s Ekomo

M’Baré N’Gom

 

Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso (b. 1948)

An Oral History (Testimonio)

Julia de Burgos: Our Julia

from Algo que decir (Something to Say)

A Strange Wailing of the Wind 

The Journey Inward: Sherezada Vicioso’s ‘Un extraño ulular de voces traía el veinto’

Aida Heredia

 

Soleida Ríos (b. 1950)

I Also Sing of Myself

Autumn Rains

Untitled

The Horn Calls Out to Us Loudly 

Final Rites 

Life

Soleida’s Reappearance

Antón  Arrufat

 

Edelma Zapata Pérez (b. 1954)

Death

The Final Drop

Ancestral Fears

The Consciousness-Raising of an Afro-Indo-Mulatto

Woman Writer in Colombia’s Multiethnic Society 

 

Yvonne-América Truque (1955–2001)

Warrior Woman

Being a Woman and Writing 

On that Underbrush that has Entrapped Us 

Someone is Sleeping

from ‘Retratos de Sombras’ (Portraits of Shadows)

Untitled: ‘There is no promised land, nor paradise’

From ‘Perfiles inconclusos’ (Unfinished Profiles): VI

VII

Yvonne-América Truque: A New Female Voice from Colombia

Marvin A. Lewis

 

Cristina Cabral (b. 1959)

25 August 1988

From My Trench

Five Hundred Years After

Memory and Resistance

Crossing Borders/Crossing Boundaries: Cristina Cabral’s Memoria y resistencia 

Caroll Mills Young 

Shirley Campbell (b. 1965)

Closing the Circle That Began in Africa

Abuelo/Grandpa

VII

XII

‘Patches of Dreams’: The Birth of Shirley Campbell’s Oeuvre 

Dellita Martin-Ogunsola

Shirley Campbell’s Rotundamente negra: Content and Technique

 

Mayra Santos-Febres (b. 1966)

The Institute of Culture Says

Marina’s Fragrance

‘The Page on Which Life Writes Itself’: A Conversation with Mayra Santos-Febres

Elba D. Birmingham-Pokomy

Reclaiming the Female Body, Culture, and Identity in Mayra Santos-Febres’ ‘Broken Strand’

Elba D. Birmingham-Pokomy 

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