{"product_id":"cuban-literature-in-the-age-of-black-insurrection-manzano-placido-and-afro-latino-religion-paperback","title":"Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: Manzano, Plácido, and Afro-Latino Religion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatthew Pettway\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, Plácido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlácido and Manzano envisioned emancipation through the lens of African spirituality, a transformative moment in the history of Cuban letters. Matthew Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido's antislavery philosophy. The portrayal of African-Atlantic religious ideas spurned the elite rationale that literature ought to be a barometer of highbrow cultural progress.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite. Pettway's emphasis on African-inspired spirituality as a source of knowledge and a means to sacred authority for black Cuban writers deepens our understanding of Manzano and Plácido not as mere imitators but as aesthetic and political pioneers. As Pettway suggests, black Latin American authors did not abandon their African religious heritage to assimilate wholesale to the Catholic Church. By recognizing the wisdom of African ancestors, they procured power in the struggle for black liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Pettway \u003c\/b\u003eis assistant professor of Spanish at University of South Alabama. Pettway has published articles in \u003ci\u003ePALARA\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003ePublication of the Afro-Latin\/American Research Association\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e Zora Neale Hurston Forum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDel Caribe\u003c\/i\u003e in addition to entries in \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. He also contributed the inaugural essay to the volume \u003ci\u003eBlack Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51805517709600,"sku":"9781496825018","price":63.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/df1f17fbe55e5183773b7fb784fa0733.webp?v=1780910579","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/cuban-literature-in-the-age-of-black-insurrection-manzano-placido-and-afro-latino-religion-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}