02697nam 2200589 450 991079736630332120230323232305.00-253-01705-X(CKB)3710000000450608(EBL)2120278(OCoLC)914473930(SSID)ssj0001528977(PQKBManifestationID)12494039(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001528977(PQKBWorkID)11521727(PQKB)11738822(MiAaPQ)EBC2120278(MdBmJHUP)muse48552(Au-PeEL)EBL2120278(CaPaEBR)ebr11081182(CaONFJC)MIL815902(EXLCZ)99371000000045060820150312h20152015 ub| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFreedom from liberation slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba /Gerard AchingBloomington :Indiana University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (272 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-01693-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 anBlacks in the diaspora.Enslaved personsCubaBiographySlaveryCubaHistory19th centuryEnslaved personsSlaveryHistory306.3/6209729109034Aching Gerard919743MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797366303321Freedom from liberation3725553UNINA