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UNINA9910461156603321 |
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Autore |
Aching Gerard |
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Titolo |
Freedom from liberation : slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba / / Gerard Aching |
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Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Slaves - Cuba |
Slavery - Cuba - History - 19th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- liberalisms at odds: slavery and the struggle for an autochthonous literature -- In spite of himself: unconscious resistance and melancholy attachments in Manzano's autobiography -- Being adequate to the task: an abolitionist translates the desire to be free -- Freedom without equality: slave protagonists, free blacks, and their bodies -- Epilogue. |
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By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797-1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano's autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano's text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial an |
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UNINA9910709982303321 |
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Stringfield V. T (Victor Timothy), <1902-> |
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Artesian water in the Florida peninsula / / by V.T. Stringfield |
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Washington, D.C. : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 1936 |
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Washington, D.C. : , : Government Printing Office |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (iii, 81 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Contributions to the hydrology of the United States |
Water-supply paper ; ; 773-C |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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