Black in print, plotting the coordinates of blackness in Central America, Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
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Black in print, plotting the coordinates of blackness in Central America, Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Black in print
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Responsibility statement
Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
Sub title
plotting the coordinates of blackness in Central America
Summary
Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that the production, circulation, and consumption of stories has led to a trans-isthmian imaginary that splits the region along racial and geographic lines into a white-mestizo Pacific coast, an Indigenous core, and a Black Caribbean. Across five chapters, Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar identifies a series of key moments in the history of the development of this imaginary: Independence, Intervention, Cold-War, Post-Revolutionary, and Digital Age. Gómez Menjívar's analysis ranges from literary beacons such as Rubén Darío and Miguel Ángel Asturias to less studied intellectuals such as Wingston González and Carl Rigby. The result is a fresh approach to race, the region, and its literature. Black in Print understands Central American Blackness as a set of shifting coordinates plotted on the axes of language, geography, and time as it moves through print media
Target audience
adult
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