Full Description
Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu highlights the significant contributions of women in the African diaspora to the Americas.
A translation to English of the highly influential Hijas del Muntu, the chapters of this edited collection illuminate life experiences and examine narrative threads and traces of identity whose common theme is the history of struggle for equal rights and participation in society. The diverse women in these stories come from all walks of life, from the singers and poets to favela leaders and mainstream politicians. Their stories are told through interviews, personal accounts, and traditional academic biography.
Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu will be a valuable resource to those interested in Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, and Race Studies among other disciplines.
Contents
Prologue: Black Women in Cuban Literature of Centuries Past
Introduction
Argentina
1. White Mothers and Wet Nurses
2. My Beautiful Black Sisters
Brazil
3. Watercolor of Brazil: Shades of a Society - From Pigmentocracy towards Democracy
4. Benedita da Silva: From the Favelas of Rio to the Halls of Power
5. The Black Voice of a Favelada: Race, Gender and Nation in the Testimony of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Colombia
6. Afro-Colombian Women's Music: La Negra Grande de Colombia and Totó la Momposina
7. Lolia Pomare Myles: A Bridge Between the Old World and the New
8. Piedad Córdoba: Between Controversy and Conviction
9. The Voice of Edelma Zapata Pérez - Afro-Colombian Poet Interview
10. Afro-Colombian Women Voices from the Margin: Mary Grueso Romero and María Elcina Valencia Córdoba
11. María Teresa Ramírez and María de los Ángeles Popov: Heiresses of Yemayá and Changó
12. Goyo: Driving Chocoano Rap
13. Life Stories of Women from Palenque in Colombia
Costa Rica
14. Emphatically Black. Reading the Poetry of Costa Rica's Shirley Campbell Barr
Cuba
15. An Island for Sara Gómez
16. Hilda Oates: An Afro-descendant Cuban Actress
17. Omara Portuondo: The Diva of Cuban Music from Las D'Aida to Buena Vista Social Club
18. The Poetic World of Nancy Morejón
19. Raise Your Voice, Break the Margins: Rap and Female Discourse
20. Celia Cruz: Live to Sing
Ecuador
21. Luz Argentina Chiriboga, "Esmeraldas' Star"
Honduras
22. Ritual Practices of Globalization: Garifuna Women
Mexico
23. Luz María Martínez Montiel: "Ambassador of the African Renaissance in Latin America and Mexico"
Peru
24. Fortitude and Charisma: Victoria Santa Cruz
25. Woman, Mother, and Leader: María Elena Moyano and the Courage of Commitment
Puerto Rico
26. Ruth Fernández: The Soul of Puerto Rico in Song
27. Breaking Paradigms and Creating New Archetypes: The Black Character in the Works of Mayra Santos Febres
28. Queeriqueña Futures and Black Liberation in the Work of Yolanda Arroyo
Dominican Republic
29. Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (1850-1897)
30. The Triple Marginality: Florinda Soriano (Mamá Tingó)
31. Sherezada Vicioso and the Construction of Her Own Caribbean
Uruguay
32. Stars in the South: Martha Gularte, Lágrima Ríos and Rosa Luna
33. Alba Roballo: "Nevertheless, I am alive"
34. An Interview with Cristina Rodríguez Cabral: The Continuous Process of Identity and Its Poetic Projection
Venezuela
35. Carmen Verde Arocha: "I believe being a poet is a destiny"
