Faith in Disguise : A Novella (Global Black Writers in Translation)

Santos-Febres, Mayra/ Mundell, John A. (TRN)

Vanderbilt University Press（2026/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 212 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780826500182
• DDC分類 B

Full Description

Faith in Disguise follows Martín Tirado, a white Puerto Rican digital historian and research assistant to Fe Verdejo, an Afro-Venezuelan scholar curating an exhibition in Chicago on enslaved and freed Black women in Latin America. As Martín becomes increasingly enmeshed in Fe's intellectual and erotic orbit, his role as subordinate and interpreter exposes the entanglement of race, power, and desire in the production of historical knowledge. Through the interplay of archival fragments and contemporary encounters, Mayra Santos-Febres illuminates how the afterlives of slavery persist within Latin American racial and sexual imaginaries, and how the erotic, as both method and experience, may gesture toward forms of liberation from them.

Contents

Translator's Introduction
Preface
Faith in Disguise: A Novella
Acknowledgements
Appendix: Interview with Mayra Santos-Febres