Black cosmopolitanism

Description:

"The Haitian Revolution of 1804 was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspora. Black Cosmopolitanism looks to the aftermath of this historical moment to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, and the British West Indies during the nineteenth century." "Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, newspaper editorials, and government documents that include texts by Frederick Douglass, the freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, and the Cuban poets Placido and Juan Francisco Manzano, Nwankwo explicates this growing self-consciousness about publicly engaging other people of African descent. Ultimately, she contends, they configured their identities specifically to counter not only the Atlantic power structure's negation of their potential for transnational identity but also its simultaneous denial of their humanity and worthiness for national citizenship."--Jacket.

subjects: African American authors,  African Americans,  American literature,  Blacks,  Cosmopolitanism,  Ethnicity in literature,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Race awareness in literature,  Race identity,  Transnationalism,  West Indian literature,  Ethnische Identita˜t,  Rassische Identita˜t,  Autor,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  Intellektueller,  African American,  Schwarze,  Africans, united states,  Race awareness,  United states, race relations,  Cuba, race relations,  West indies, race relations,  African americans, history,  Black people

Places: West Indies