Singular Like a Bird : The Art of Nancy Morejon
, by Decosta-Willis, MiriamNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780882581989 | 0882581988
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/1/1999
Gabriel A. Abudu is assistant professor of Spanish and French at York College in Pennsylvania Yvonne Captain-Hidalgo is associate professor of Spanish at The George Washington University Miriam DeCosta-Willis Her essays on Afro-Hispanic literature have appeared in journals such as the Afro-Hispanic Review, Journal of Caribbean Studies, and National Women's Studies Journal Gerardo Fulleda Leon, a Cuban playwright with a degree in history from the University of Havana, directs the Rita Montaner theatrical group in Havana Mariela Gutierrez, a Cuban-Canadian who specializes in Afro-Hispanic Studies, is professor of Latin American literature and civilization and director of the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada Janet Jones Hampton is an associate professor of Spanish at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Linda S. Howe received her M. A. and Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison Richard Jackson: professor (retired) of Spanish at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada Shirley Jackson is professor of Spanish in the Department of Languages and Communications at the University of the District of Columbia William Luis teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University Caroline A. McKenzie studied Romance languages and literatures at Princeton University Diane E. Marting is assistant professor of Latin American literature at the University of Florida, Gainesville Dellita L. Martin-Ogunsola is an associate professor of Spanish and chairperson of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Antonio Olliz-Boyd, a Cuban-American, is professor emeritus of Hispanic and Portuguese languages and literatures and retired as director of the Portuguese Program at Temple University Moses E. Panford, Jr., an assistant professor of Spanish at Stephen F. Austin State University, is from Ghana Trinidad Perez Valdes, who received a degree in Cuban and Spanish-American literature from the University of Havana works in the Office of Latin American Literature at the Instituto del Libro Maria Roof is associate professor of Spanish at Howard University Marta Valdes is a composer, guitarist, and song interpreter, whose essays on popular music have appeared in major periodicals C. RoseGreen-Williams is a senior lecturer and head of the Department of Spanish at the University of the West Indies, Mona Lorna V. Williams is professor of Spanish at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Preface: Keeping the Song Alive | p. xiii |
Introduction: Coming Freely Like a Bird, The Poet's Song | p. 1 |
Nancy Morejon: An Interview | p. 37 |
A Millenary Song | |
Race, Poetry, and Revolution in the Works of Nancy Morejon | p. 45 |
An Aesthetic and Human Provocation | p. 69 |
Language, Culture, and Consciousness in the Poetry of Nancy Morejon | p. 83 |
Nancy Morejon, the "New Woman" in Cuba, and the First Generation of Black Writers of the Revolution | p. 103 |
Concerning an Unforgettable Notebook | p. 115 |
Daughter of Ocean Waters | |
The Revolutionary Feminism of Nancy Morejon | p. 131 |
Nancy Morejon's Womanism | p. 153 |
Black Woman Empowered: Portraits of the Black Woman in the Poetry of Nancy Morejon | p. 169 |
Re-writing the History of the Afro-Cuban Woman: Nancy Morejon's "Mujer negra" | p. 187 |
The Representation of Female Sexuality in Nancy Morejon's Amor, ciudad atribuida, poemas | p. 201 |
Nancy Morejon's Avenging Resistance in "Black Woman" and "I Love My Master": Examples of a Black Slave Woman's Path to Freedom | p. 209 |
An Ancestral Language | |
Africanity and Revolution: The Dialectics of Ambivalence in the Poetry of Nancy Morejon | p. 223 |
Piedra pulida: Nancy Morejon's Tribute to Nicolas Guillen | p. 245 |
When Nancy Dreams | p. 263 |
Orishas Circling Her House: Race as (Con) Text in Morejon's Poetic Discourse | p. 277 |
The Poetics of the Quotidian in the Works of Nancy Morejon | p. 297 |
And Still the Song Lingers | p. 311 |
A Classified Bibliography | p. 323 |
Contributors | p. 339 |
Index | p. 345 |
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