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- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Chapter 13 Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 14 Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
- Chapter 15 The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
- Chapter 16 The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba
- Chapter 17 South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920
- Chapter 18 Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Chapter 19 Cuban Literature before 1920
- Chapter 20 José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
- Chapter 21 Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 19 - Cuban Literature before 1920
Antislavery, Historiography, Women’s Writing, and the Nation
from Part III - The Caribbean Region in Transition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 December 2020
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Caribbean Literature in Transition
- Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1800–1920
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary and Generic Transitions
- Part II Cultural and Political Transitions
- Part III The Caribbean Region in Transition
- Chapter 13 Antillean Sovereignty in Pan-Caribbean Writing
- Chapter 14 Caribbean Literature as Diasporic Archive
- Chapter 15 The Representation of the Caribbean in Nineteenth-Century African American Newspapers
- Chapter 16 The Impact of the American Civil War on Political Writing in Jamaica and Cuba
- Chapter 17 South Asian Migration and Settlement Stories, 1800–1920
- Chapter 18 Francophone–Anglophone Connections in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean
- Chapter 19 Cuban Literature before 1920
- Chapter 20 José Martí, José Rizal, and Their Speculative Extended Caribbean
- Chapter 21 Translating the Revolution from Haiti to Louisiana
- Part IV Critical Transitions
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This essay discusses the historical, literary, and geopolitical junctures that influenced the development of Cuban literature during the nineteenth century and turn of the twentieth century. It demonstrates how, albeit in contradictory ways, literature from this period became a means for criollo self-determination and self-reflection, rooted in literary forms like the nineteenth-century cuadro de costumbres, historical novel, and antislavery narrative.
This essay then moves to the second half of the nineteenth century and explores the way in which the exile literature of José Martí and others was equally important in fostering a sense of national identity. However, an emphasis on Martí and his contemporaries has overshadowed the writing of Cuban women writers. Thus, this essay also argues that the Cuban women writers need to be put in conversation with the male-dominated intellectual tradition of Cuban literature. It concludes by analysing the importance of Nicolás Guillén’s avant-garde poetry for the reclamation of blackness in Cuban literature.
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