Forgotten Texts

Forgotten Texts recovers several lyrical poems by contributors to newspapers that Afro-Argentine editors published (1878-1888) and one from La Naciaon (1923) in Buenos Aires. It presents understudied minority discourses to the global community and widens appreciation of Afro-Argentine literary production to include belles lettres content and style, for placement alongside more well-known folkloric payadas, tangos, and habaneras. These poems substitute authentic voices for anthologized hegemonic Negrista texts by non-black elites, whose "ventriloquism" drowns out themes of importance to Afrodescendants. Previously overlooked poems by women also appear. Poems and poets' photographs, together, refute the absence of an Afro-Argentine literary tradition.

Author: Edith Moss Jackson
Publisher: Xlibris
Published: 08/31/2010
Pages: 238
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781441541086
Language: Multiple Languages

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