Nicolas Guillen

GuillÉn, NicolÁs - nēkōläsˈ gēyānˈ, 1904–89, Cuban poet. A leading exponent of poesia negra—an Afro-Antillean genre developed in the Caribbean—Guillén writes poetry charged with intense racial and political feelings. In Motivos de son (1930) and Sóngoro cosongo (1931) he employed native incantations Read More...

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The Poet's Africa: Africanness in the Poetry of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire
by Josaphat B. Kubayanda. 180 pgs.

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This work is the first to study the writings of Nicolas Guillen and Aime Cesaire in a comparative framework, exploring their poetry as the exemplification of Negritude art and Caribbean writing. Using non-canonical theories of literary and cultural analysis, Kubayanda proposes and demonstrates an original Caribbean poetics, anchored in Africa's cultural systems and linked to Afro-American protest thought. Focusing on race, culture, roots, and history, the book discusses the relationships between creative writing, the idea of Africa, and the rediscovery of African values in the Caribbean.

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Recent Titles in Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Preface

1: The Emergence of Caribbean Rhetorical Discourse on Africa

2: Inventing the Primitive African

3: Calling into Question the Universals" of History"

4: The Double Proletarian": Race and the Caribbean Social Space"

5: Language as (de)sign of Cultural Roots and Centralized Power

6: Artistic Cross-Fertilization or Polyrhythmic Structures

7: Conclusion: Keeping Alive the Discourse on Africa

Notes

Index

About the Author
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Man-Making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillaen
by Nicolas Guillen, Robert Marquez. 214 pgs.

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Introduction: Give Me Initiative, Spermatic, Prophesying Man-Making Words.

Exilio

Notes and Glossary

Note on Sources
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Some Early Readings of Motivos De Son, in Romance Quarterly
by Edward J. Mullen. 10 pgs.

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Celestina's Brood: Continuities of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American Literatures (includes "Guillen as Baroque: Meaning in Motivos de Son")
by Roberto Gonzelez Echevarria. 284 pgs.

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1. Celestina's Brood

2. the Life and Adventures of Cipión: Cervantes and the Picaresque

3. Poetry and Painting in Lope's El Castigo Sin Venganza

4. Calderón La Vida Es Sueño: Mixed-(Up) Monsters

5. Threats in Calderón: La vida es sueño 1:303-8

6. Reflections on the Espejo De Paciencia

7. Poetics and Modernity in Juan De Espinosa Medrano, Known as Lunarejo

8. Socrates Among the Weeds: Blacks and History in Carpentier's El siglo de las luces

9. Guillén as Baroque: Meaning in Motivos de son

10. Plain Song: Sarduy's Cobra

Index
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The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective (includes "Nicolas Guillen: Sugar Mill and Poetry")
by Antonio Benitez Rojo, James Maraniss. 360 pgs.

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In this section edition of the Repeating Island, Antonio Benitez-Rojo, a master of the historical novel, short story, and critical essay, continues to confront the legacy and myths of colonialism.

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Acknowledgments To The Second Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Repeating Island

■ Part 1: Society

■ Part 2: The Writer

3: Nicolás Guillén: Sugar Mill And Poetry

4: Fernando Ortiz: The Caribbean And Postmodernity

5 Carpentier and Harris: Explorers Of El Dorado

■ Part 3: The Book

■ 6: Los Pañamanes, Or the Memory Of The Skin

8: Niéo Avileés, Or History's Libido

■ Part 4 The Paradox

■ 9 Naming the Father, Naming The Mother

10: Private Reflections On García Márquez's Eréndira

Epilogue

Notes

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Between Race and Empire: African-Americans and Cubans before the Cuban Revolution (includes "Nicolas Guillen and Langston Hughes Convergences and Divergences")
by Lisa Brock, Digna Castaneda Fuertes. 298 pgs.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: Between Race and Empire

1: Minerva A Magazine for Women (and Men) of Color

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2: Telling Silences and Making Community Afro-Cubans and African-Americans in Ybor City and Tampa, 1899-1915

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3: The African-American Press and United States Involvement in Cuba, 1902-1912

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4: Encounters in the African Atlantic World The African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cuba

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5: Cuba's Roaring Twenties Race Consciousness and the Column "Ideales de una Raza"

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6: Marcus Garvey in Cuba Urrutia, Cubans, and Black Nationalism

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7: Nicolás Guillén and Langston Hughes Convergences and Divergences

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8: Not Just Black African-Americans, Cubans, and Baseball

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9: Cuban Social Poetry and the Struggle against Two Racisms

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10: CuBop! Afro-Cuban Music and Mid-Twentieth-Century American Culture

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11: The African-American Press Greets the Cuban Revolution

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Epilogue

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ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS

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Black Writers and Latin America: Cross-Cultural Affinities (includes information on Nicolas Guillen in "Hispanic Black Writers and the United States")
by Richard L. Jackson. 208 pgs.

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In this study, the author begins by examining the influence of Africa and Spain upon the literatures of African Americans and Latin Americans. He explores the reciprocal exchange of influences among artists of African descent in the United States and in Latin America--from established writers to a new generation of writers, including women.

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INTRODUCTION The International Dimension in U.S. Black Writing

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One U.S. Black Writers and Spain

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Two U.S. Black Writers and Latin America

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Three the Influence of U.S. Black Writers

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Four Hispanic Black Writers and the United States

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Five Black Writers in Latin America Today

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CONCLUSION Hispanic Black Criticism and the North American Perspective

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Selected Bibliography

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