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Author Arroyo, Jossianna

Title Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Freemasonry / Jossianna Arroyo
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series New Directions in Latino American Cultures
New directions in Latino American cultures.
Contents 1. On Secrecy: Freemasonry and Affective Politics -- 2. Hauntings: Americanisms in Andřs Cassard and Albert Pike -- 3. Technologies: Caribbean Knowledges, Imperial Critiques 1860-1900 -- 4. Writing Secrecy: Modernismos and the Opus of the Word -- 5. Urgency and Possibility: Afro-Latin@ Identities
Summary "Writing Secrecy in Caribbean Free Masonry" analyzes the Masonic, literary, and political writings of Andřs Cassard, Ram̤n E. Betances, Još Mart̕, Arturo Schomburg, and Rafael Serra, Spanish Caribbean intellectuals who lived in the decades of anti-colonial struggle in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola (1860-1898). In the Caribbean, Masonic notions of liberal freedom coincided with the legacies of empire and colonial slavery, creating languages of secrecy, dissent, and radical affective politics that influenced radical Caribbean political cultures in the turn of the nineteenth century. By analyzing the lives, writings, and activism of these exiled Masonic intellectuals, this book provides insights into the Pan-Caribbean formations of nation and diaspora and sheds light on the role of print-culture, Masonic ritual and languages, racial ideologies, and community in the Caribbean and the United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index
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Subject Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Freemasonry in literature.
Secrecy in literature.
Nationalism and literature -- Caribbean Area
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Caribbean literature (Spanish)
Freemasonry in literature
Nationalism and literature
Secrecy in literature
Caribbean Area
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137305169
1137305169
9781349454747
1349454745