Reading Juan Francisco Manzano in the wake of Alexander von Humboldt.

Autor: Miller, Marilyn Grace
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Zdroj: Atlantic Studies; Jun2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p163-189, 27p, 2 Charts
Abstrakt: Colonial scholars have recently begun to pay closer attention to the traffic of the work of Cuban poet Juan Francisco Manzano between the Caribbean and Europe, pointing out that the first version of his so-called slave narrative, along with a selection of his poetry, was first published in English translation in London in 1840. This recent shift in Manzano studies signals a growing recognition of the Cuban poet's circulation in an international abolitionist discourse, despite the fact that he himself never left Cuba or even denounced slavery explicitly. By situating Manzano temporally and spatially in relation to Alexander von Humboldt and his comments on Cuban slavery, we can better understand the participation of both in transatlantic efforts to expose and question colonial servitude in the Americas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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