Freedom From Liberation: Slavery, Sentiment, And Literature In Cuba (Blacks In The Diaspora)

By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally held assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has sufaced 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, taking the reader beyond Manzano's text and into the world of pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba's Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain, and explores the contradictory motivations surrounding anticolonialism and antislavery activism--Page [4] of cover.

• | Author: Gerard Aching
• | Publisher: Indiana University Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 07, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0253016932
• | ISBN-13: 9780253016935