1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910862076503321

Autore

Ramsay Paulette A

Titolo

Afro-Mexican Constructions of Diaspora, Gender, Identity and Nation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Kingston : , : University of the West Indies Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

976-640-581-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (220 pages)

Disciplina

860.9/896072

Soggetti

Mexican literature - Black authors - History and criticism

Arts, Black - Mexico - Costa Chica

Black people - Mexico - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Father Glyn Jemmott Nelson -- Introduction -- Racial and ethnic diversity in Mexico through the distorted lens of Memín Pinguín -- Constructions of gender and nation in selected Afro-Mexican folktales -- Masculinity, language and power in selected Afro-Mexican Corridos -- Place, racial and cultural identities in selected Afro-Mexican oral and lyric verses -- Afro-Mexico in the context of a Caribbean literary and cultural aesthetics -- Conclusion.