Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon

Mullen, Edward, Afro - Hispanic Review

Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon

by Richard Jackson

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997. 138 pp.

Reviewed by Edward Mullen

In 1965 the author of the book under review published "An Underdeveloped Area" in Hispania. This brief but powerful statement urged Hispanists to reevaluate how they had built the traditional canon and called for the inclusion of Afro-Hispanic texts in Hispanic studies. It was followed by a series of groundbreaking books (The Black Image in Latin American Literature, 1976, and Black Writers in Latin America, 1979, are probably the best known) that openly challenged prevailing notions about the role played by race and ethnicity in …

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Publication information: Article title: Black Writers and the Hispanic Canon. Contributors: Mullen, Edward - Author. Journal title: Afro - Hispanic Review. Volume: 18. Issue: 1 Publication date: Spring 1999. Page number: 59. © Vanderbilt University. Department of Spanish and Portuguese Fall 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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