| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) |
| Contents |
Afro-Venezuelan cimarronas : desde adentro / Nirva Rosa Comacho Parra -- Carrera de una cimarrona / Mónica Carillo -- Bodies and memories : Afro-Latina identities in motion / Ana-Maurine Lara -- Memories of a black woman activist / Diva Moreira -- Black girls ride tricycles too : thoughts from the identities of an Afro-descendent and feminist woman / Ana Irma Rivera Lassén -- Afro-Boricua : Nuyorican de pura cepa / Marta Moreno Vega -- Where the heart is : family, work and my binational life as a black Brazilian scholar / Vânia Penha-Lopes -- A Jane Doe / Ana Irma Rivera Lassén -- The whispers of the ancestors : development of a black, proud, Panamanian voice / Yvette Modestin -- La Encrucijada/the crossroads : where roots grow again / Marinieves Alba -- A life spirals : journeys of an Afro-Latina activist / Evelyne Laurent-Perrault -- Fatal conquests : racial imposition in Puerto Rico / Maria I. Reinat-Pumarejo -- Frente al siglo nuevo ; Un mondo sin miedo / Shirley Campbell -- MEDIUM : a meditation for diaspora daughters / Lorelei Williams |
| Summary |
This collection features eleven essays and four poems in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin America and they write about the African diaspora and issues such as colonialism, oppression and disenfranchisement. Diva Moreira, a black Brazilian, writes that she experienced racism and humiliation at a very young age |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Latin American literature -- Women authors
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Latin American literature -- African influences
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Black people -- Latin America -- Ethnic identity
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Women and literature -- Latin America
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
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Black people -- Ethnic identity
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Latin American literature -- Women authors
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Women and literature
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Latin America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vega, Marta Moreno
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Alba, Marinieves
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Modestin, Yvette
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| LC no. |
2012008327 |
| ISBN |
9781611924589 |
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1611924588 |
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9781611924602 |
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161192460X |
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