Freedom from liberation : slavery, sentiment, and literature in Cuba /
Gerard Aching.
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Blacks in the diaspora .
- Blacks in the diaspora. .
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.
9780253017055 (e-book)
Manzano, Juan Francisco, 1797-1854. Autobiografía.