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Near Fine in Fine jacket. This book explores the relationship of modern black literature to humanism and the quest for ethnic authenticity in Latin America; it traces the humanist vision of 20th century black Hispanic literature from the Afrocriollo movement of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s to the most recent fiction and criticism of black Latin American writers (red cloth with silver lettering, a few very small, faint marginal marks; white pictorial dust jacket with painting by Gustavo Lazarini on the front cover)
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Athens. 1988. University Of Georgia Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0820309796. 166 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration: Aunt Juliana, by Gustavo Lazarini, 1941. Watercolor. keywords: Latin America Black Literature. FROM THE PUBLISHER-The successful overthrow of European political imperialism in Latin America was followed by an equally passionate struggle to end a cultural colonialism of many centuries. To a number of authors writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, the search for a Latin American specificity-la especificidad latino-americana-demanded writing that would reflect the social tragedy of their continent. Increasingly, they found themselves looking for literary subjects in marginalized African and indigenous cultures, discovering in the lives and literature of the severely oppressed an authentic Latin American voice. In BLACK LITERATURE AND HUMANISM IN LATIN AMERICA, Richard Jackson explores literary Americanism through writings of black Hispanic authors such as Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Quince Duncan, and Nelson Estupiñán Bass that in many ways provide a microcosm for the larger literature. Jackson traces the roots of Afro-Hispanic literature from the early twentieth-century Afrocriollo movement-the Harlem Renaissance of Latin America-to the fiction and criticism of black Latin Americans today. Black humanism arose from Afro-Hispanics' self-discovery of their own humanity and the realization that over the years they had become not only defenders of threatened cultures but also symbolic guardians of humanity. This humanist tradition has enabled writers such as Manuel Zapata Olivella to write of a Latin America ‘from below' the slave-ship deck and ‘from inside' the mind of Africa. An exemplary work of black literature and humanism, Zapata Olivella's Chango, el gran putas is an epic novel of the black experience in the New World which draws its inspiration from African mythology to express ‘the souls of black folk from an African world view. ' Though many writers have adopted black literary models in their quest for a ‘poetry of sources, of fundamental human values, ' Jackson demonstrates that literature about blacks by blacks themselves is clearly separate from, yet instrumental to, these other works. Relating the vision of Latin American blacks not only to other Latin American writers but also to North American literary critics such as Eugene Goodheart and John Gardner, Jackson stresses the universal power of resisting oppression and injustice through the language of humanism. inventory #20267.
