Freedom from Liberation

Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Caribbean & West Indian, Nonfiction, History, Revolutionary
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Author: Gerard Laurence Aching ISBN: 9780253017055
Publisher: Indiana University Press Publication: August 7, 2015
Imprint: Indiana University Press Language: English
Author: Gerard Laurence Aching
ISBN: 9780253017055
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication: August 7, 2015
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Language: English

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 and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba's Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain.

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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 and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba's Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain.

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