Mayaya Rising

Black Female Icons in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Culture

Dawn Duke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2023
Bucknell University Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-68448-439-3 (ISBN)

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This work of restorative scholarship centers and honors Afro-Latin American heroines present in the work of Cuban, Dominican, Columbian, and Nicaraguan women writers, and the reception of their work by literary critics. Three literary case studies explore the archetypal regional figures of Teodora and Micaela Ginés, Miss Lizzie, and the palenqueras.

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.

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.

Introduction: The Fundamentals of Glory
PART I
A Cuban/Dominican Case Study
1 Teodora and Micaela Ginés: Myth or History?
2 The Invention of History through Poetry: A Dominican Initiative
PART II
A Nicaraguan Case Study
3 Tracing the Dance Steps of a “British” Subject: Miss Lizzie’s Palo de Mayo
4 From “Mayaya las im key” to Creole Women’s Writings
PART III
A Colombian Case Study
5 Rituals of Alegría and Ponchera: The Enterprising Palenqueras
6 Palenquera Writings: A Twenty-First-Century Movement
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	31.01.2023
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-68448-439-1 / 1684484391
ISBN-13	978-1-68448-439-3 / 9781684484393
Zustand	Neuware