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| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Autobiografía de Un Esclavo Juan Francisco Manzano, 1996 The proceedings of ISCV'95, the successor to previous Workshops on Computer Vision, comprise 104 refereed papers on topics in optical flow, matching/stereo, motion, object recognition, low-level vision, CAD-based vision, stereo, deformable models, systems and applications, tracking, segmentation and grouping, active vision, aerial image analysis, and integration/texture. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Poet Slave of Cuba Margarita Engle, 2015-01-13 A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet. Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her Mama, even though he had a mama of his own. Denied an education, young Juan still showed an exceptional talent for poetry. His verses reflect the beauty of his world, but they also expose its hideous cruelty. Powerful, haunting poems and breathtaking illustrations create a portrait of a life in which even the pain of slavery could not extinguish the capacity for hope. The Poet Slave of Cuba is the winner of the 2008 Pura Belpre Medal for Narrative and a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. Latino Interest. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave J. Manzano, 2014-12-17 This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave Juan Francisco Manzano, Richard Robert Madden, 1981 |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Island of Cuba Richard Robert Madden, 1853 |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Freedom from Liberation Gerard Aching, 2015-08-07 “Delves into the life and work of Juan Francisco Manzano, the enslaved Cuban poet and author of Spanish America’s only known slave narrative . . . Valuable.” —Choice By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave’s foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has surfaced to date, Manzano’s autobiography details the daily grind of the vast majority of slaves who sought relief from the burden of living under slavery. Aching combines historical narrative and literary criticism to take the reader beyond Manzano’s text to examine the motivations behind anticolonial and antislavery activism in pre-revolution Cuba, when Cuba’s Creole bourgeoisie sought their own form of freedom from the colonial arm of Spain. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave J. Manzano, 2015-12-19 This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, essential resource for scholars and students of Caribbean literatures. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Cuba Reader Aviva Chomsky, Barry Carr, Alfredo Prieto, Pamela Maria Smorkaloff, 2019-05-17 Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Biography of a Runaway Slave Miguel Barnet, 2016-04-15 Fiftieth Anniversary Edition Originally published in 1966, Miguel Barnet’s Biography of a Runaway Slave provides the written history of the life of Esteban Montejo, who lived as a slave, as a fugitive in the wilderness, and as a soldier fighting against Spain in the Cuban War of Independence. A new introduction by one of the most preeminent Afro-Hispanic scholars, William Luis, situates Barnet’s ethnographic strategy and lyrical narrative style as foundational for the tradition of testimonial fiction in Latin American literature. Barnet recorded his interviews with the 103-year-old Montejo at the onset of the Cuban Revolution. This insurgent’s history allows the reader into the folklore and cultural history of Afro-Cubans before and after the abolition of slavery. The book serves as an important contribution to the archive of black experience in Cuba and as a reminder of the many ways that the present continues to echo the past. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Slave's Narrative Charles T. Davis, Henry Louis Gates Jr., 1991-02-21 These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such narratives serve as historical material; and essays exploring the narratives as literary artifacts. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Writing for Inclusion Karen Ruth Kornweibel, 2018-09-15 Writing for Inclusion is a study of some of the ways the idea of national identity developed in the nineteenth century in two neighboring nations, Cuba and The United States. The book examines symbolic, narrative, and sociological commonalities in the writings of four Afro-Cuban and African American writers: Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass, fugitive slaves during mid-century; and Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt from the post-slavery period. All four share sensitivity to their imperfect inclusion as full citizens, engage in an examination of the process of racialization that hinders them in seeking such inclusion, and contest their definition as non-citizens. Works discussed include the slave narratives of Manzano and Douglass, Manzano’s poetry and play Zafira, andDouglass’s oratory and novella The Heroic Slave. Also considered, within the context provided by Manzano and Douglass, are Morúa and Chesnutt’s non-fiction writings about race and nation as well as their second-generation “tragic mulata” novels Sofía and The House Behind the Cedars. Based on an examination of the works of these four authors, Writing for Inclusion provides a detailed examination of examples of self-emancipation, the authors’ symbolic use of language, their expression of social anxieties or irony within the quest for recognition, and their arguments for an inclusive vision of national identity beyond the quagmires of race. By focusing on the process of racialization and ideas of race and national identity in a comparative context, the study seeks to highlight the artificial and contested nature of both terms and suggest new ways to interrogate them in our present day. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Cecilia Valdés or El Angel Hill Cirilo Villaverde, 2005-09-29 Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Literary Bondage William Luis, 1990-03-01 In the nineteenth century, the Cuban economy rested on the twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study Literary Bondage, asking why this literary genre has remained a viable means of expression. Applying Foucault's theory of counter-discourse to a vast body of antislavery literature, Luis shows how these narratives have always served to undermine the foundations of slavery, to protest the marginalized status of blacks in Cuban society, and to rewrite the canon of acceptable history and literature. He finds that emancipation did not end the need for such counter-discourse and reveals how the antislavery narrative continues to provide a forum for voices that have been silenced by the dominant culture. In addition to such well-known works as Cecilia Valdés, The Kingdom of This World, and The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave, Luis draws on many literary works outside the familiar canon, including Romualdo, uno de tantos, Aponte, SofíaLa familia Unzúazu, El negrero, and Los guerrilleros negros. This comprehensive coverage raises important questions about the process of canon-formation and brings to light Cuba's rich heritage of Afro-Latin literature and culture. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America Jerome C. Branche, 2021-04-30 Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music, and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American nations negotiating independence and a new political and cultural balance. In Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America, Jerome Branche presents the reader with the complex landscape of art and literature among Afro-Hispanic and Latin artists. Branche and his contributors describe individuals such as Juan Francisco Manzano, who wrote an autobiography on the slave experience in Cuba during the nineteenth century. The reader finds a thriving Afro-Hispanic theatrical presence throughout Latin America and even across the Atlantic. The role of black women in poetry and literature comes to the forefront in the Caribbean, presenting a powerful reminder of the diversity that defines the region. All too often, the disciplines of film studies, literary criticism, and art history ignore the opportunity to collaborate in a dialogue. Branche and his contributors present a unified approach, however, suggesting that cultural production should not be viewed narrowly, especially when studying the achievements of the Afro-Latin world. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Reyita María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, 2000 Assisted by her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author recounts her life as a black woman struggling with prejudice and change in Cuba over the span of 90 years. Known as Reyita, Maria de Los Reyes Castillo Bueno starts her story with the abduction of her grandmother by slave traders and shares her own experiences as a mother, laborer, and revolutionary. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection Matthew Pettway, 2019-12-30 Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era. Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality. Likewise, Plácido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution. Plácido and Manzano envisioned emancipation through the lens of African spirituality, a transformative moment in the history of Cuban letters. Matthew Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy. The portrayal of African-Atlantic religious ideas spurned the elite rationale that literature ought to be a barometer of highbrow cultural progress. Cuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite. Pettway’s emphasis on African-inspired spirituality as a source of knowledge and a means to sacred authority for black Cuban writers deepens our understanding of Manzano and Plácido not as mere imitators but as aesthetic and political pioneers. As Pettway suggests, black Latin American authors did not abandon their African religious heritage to assimilate wholesale to the Catholic Church. By recognizing the wisdom of African ancestors, they procured power in the struggle for black liberation. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Restavec Jean-Robert Cadet, 2009-09-15 This inspiring memoir recounts a man’s harrowing journey from unpaid child labor in Haiti to a successful life in the United States. African slaves in Haiti emancipated themselves from French rule in 1804 and created the first independent black republic in the Western Hemisphere. But they reinstituted slavery for the most vulnerable members of Haitian society—the children of the poor—by using them as unpaid servants to the wealthy. These children were—and still are—restavecs, a French term whose literal meaning of staying with disguises the unremitting labor, abuse, and denial of education that characterizes the children's lives. In this memoir, Jean-Robert Cadet recounts the harrowing story of his youth as a restavec, as well as his inspiring climb to middle-class American life. He vividly describes what it was like to be an unwanted illegitimate child staying with a well-to-do family whose physical and emotional abuse was sanctioned by Haitian society. He also details his subsequent life in the United States, where, despite American racism, he put himself through college and found success in the Army, in business, and finally in teaching. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Scraping By Seth Rockman, 2009-01-29 Co-winner, 2010 Merle Curti Award, Organization of American HistoriansWinner, 2010 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, ILR School at Cornell University and the Labor and Working-Class History AssociationWinner, 2010 H. L. Mitchell Award, Southern Historical Association Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers all navigated the low-end labor market in post-Revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Rockman considers this diverse workforce, exploring how race, sex, nativity, and legal status determined the economic opportunities and vulnerabilities of working families in the early republic. In the era of Frederick Douglass, Baltimore's distinctive economy featured many slaves who earned wages and white workers who performed backbreaking labor. By focusing his study on this boomtown, Rockman reassesses the roles of race and region and rewrites the history of class and capitalism in the United States during this time. Rockman describes the material experiences of low-wage workers—how they found work, translated labor into food, fuel, and rent, and navigated underground economies and social welfare systems. He also explores what happened if they failed to find work or lost their jobs. Rockman argues that the American working class emerged from the everyday struggles of these low-wage workers. Their labor was indispensable to the early republic’s market revolution, and it was central to the transformation of the United States into the wealthiest society in the Western world. Rockman’s research includes construction site payrolls, employment advertisements, almshouse records, court petitions, and the nation’s first “living wage” campaign. These rich accounts of day laborers and domestic servants illuminate the history of early republic capitalism and its consequences for working families. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Monkey Hunting Cristina García, 2007-12-18 In this deeply stirring novel, acclaimed author Cristina García follows one extraordinary family through four generations, from China to Cuba to America. Wonderfully evocative of time and place, rendered in the lyrical prose that is García’s hallmark, Monkey Hunting is an emotionally resonant tale of immigration, assimilation, and the prevailing integrity of self. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: With a Star in My Hand Margarita Engle, 2020-02-18 “Exceptional.” —Booklist (starred review) “Heartfelt…Thoughtful and effective.” —The Horn Book “Engle’s lyrical poetry emotionally conveys the reality of being a greatly gifted, passionate, and deeply ambitious young man in a turbulent time.” —BCCB From acclaimed author Margarita Engle comes a gorgeous novel in verse about Rubén Darío, the Nicaraguan poet and folk hero who initiated the literary movement of Modernismo. As a little boy, Rubén Darío loved to listen to his great uncle, a man who told tall tales in a booming, larger-than-life voice. Rubén quickly learned the magic of storytelling, and discovered the rapture and beauty of verse. A restless and romantic soul, Rubén traveled across Central and South America seeking adventure and connection. As he discovered new places and new loves, he wrote poems to express his wild storm of feelings. But the traditional forms felt too restrictive. He began to improvise his own poetic forms so he could capture the entire world in his words. At the age of twenty-one, he published his first book Azul, which heralded a vibrant new literary movement called Modernismo that blended poetry and prose into something magical. In gorgeous poems of her own, Margarita Engle tells the story of this passionate young man who revolutionized world literature. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Afro-Latin American Studies Alejandro de la Fuente, George Reid Andrews, 2018-04-26 Alejandro de la Fuente and George Reid Andrews offer the first systematic, book-length survey of humanities and social science scholarship on the exciting field of Afro-Latin American studies. Organized by topic, these essays synthesize and present the current state of knowledge on a broad variety of topics, including Afro-Latin American music, religions, literature, art history, political thought, social movements, legal history, environmental history, and ideologies of racial inclusion. This volume connects the region's long history of slavery to the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments of the last two centuries. Written by leading scholars in each of those topics, the volume provides an introduction to the field of Afro-Latin American studies that is not available from any other source and reflects the disciplinary and thematic richness of this emerging field. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Proceed with Caution, when Engaged by Minority Writing in the Americas Doris Sommer, 1999 Let the reader beware. Educated readers naturally feel entitled to know what they're reading--often, if they try hard enough, to know it with the conspiratorial intimacy of a potential partner. This book reminds us that cultural differences may in fact make us targets of a text, not its co-conspirators. Some literature, especially culturally particular or minority literature, actually uses its differences and distances to redirect our desire for intimacy toward more cautious, respectful engagements. To name these figures of cultural discontinuity--to describe a rhetoric of particularism in the Americas--is the purpose of Proceed with Caution. In a series of daring forays, from seventeenth-century Inca Garcilaso de la Vega to Julio Cortázar and Mario Vargas Llosa, Doris Sommer shows how ethnically marked texts use enticing and frustrating language games to keep readers engaged with difference: Gloria Estefan's syncopated appeal to solidarity plays on Whitman's undifferentiated ideal; unrequitable seductions echo through Rigoberta Menchú's protestations of secrecy, Toni Morrison's interrupted confession, the rebuffs in a Mexican testimonial novel. In these and other examples, Sommer trains us to notice the signs that affirm a respectful distance as a condition of political fairness and aesthetic effect--warnings that will be audible (and engaging for readings that tolerate difference) once we listen for a rhetoric of particularism. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Pablo Neruda Monica Brown, 2011-03-29 Describes the life and times of the Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Lightning Dreamer Margarita Engle, 2013 Newbery Honor-winner Margarita Engle tells the story of Cuban folk hero, abolitionist, and women's rights pioneer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda in this powerful YA historical novel in verse. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Masking and Power Gerard Aching, 2002 Focusing on masking as a socially significant practice in Caribbean cultures, Gerard Aching's analysis articulates masking, mimicry, and misrecognition as a means of describing and interrogating strategies of visibility and invisibility in Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, and beyond. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: There is Confusion Jessie Redmon Fauset, 1989 Set in Philadelphia some 60 years ago, There Is Confusion traces the lives of Joanna Mitchell and Peter Bye, whose families must come to terms with an inheritance of prejudice and discrimination as they struggle for legitimacy and respect. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Your Heart, My Sky Margarita Engle, 2022-04-19 In Cuba's special period in times of peace of 1991, Liana and Amado find love after their severe hunger gives both courage to risk government retribution by skipping a summer of labor to seek food. Told in their two voices plus that of the stray dog that brought them together. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo Rafael Ocasio, 2012 A broad examination of representations of Afro-Cuban religious themes in literature and popular arts, focusing on white authors of Costumbrismo literature represented black culture. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Ambivalence and the Postcolonial Subject Gera Burton, 2004 Regarded as «Cuba's most mysterious poet», Juan Francisco Manzano continues to intrigue scholars across disciplines. Using a postcolonial approach, this book breaks new ground by exploring the poet's connection with the Irish civil rights champion, Richard Robert Madden. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Gera C. Burton takes a fresh look at the relationship between these two extraordinary individuals to reveal facts considered critical in achieving an understanding of their association, with particular resonance for postcolonial studies. What emerges, regardless of their ambivalence, is the creation of a strategic alliance forged by the two writers in opposition to the colonial powers. Scholars in the fields of Latin American, postcolonial, and Diasporic studies, along with specialists in Cuban and Irish studies will welcome this significant contribution to the body of work on «la gente sin historia» - the people without a history. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, Angela Rosenthal, 2013-09-30 Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in Brazil in 1888. While this period saw the emergence of portraiture as a major field of representation in Western art, 'slave' and 'portraiture' as categories appear to be mutually exclusive. On the one hand, the logic of chattel slavery sought to render the slave's body as an instrument for production, as the site of a non-subject. Portraiture, on the contrary, privileged the face as the primary visual matrix for the representation of a distinct individuality. Essays address this apparent paradox of 'slave portraits' from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, probing the historical conditions that made the creation of such rare and enigmatic objects possible and exploring their implications for a more complex understanding of power relations under slavery. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Surrender Tree Margarita Engle, 2008-04 Cuba has fought three wars for independence, and still she is not free. This history in verse creates a lyrical portrait of Cuba. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; Juan Francisco 1797-1854 Manzano, Richard Robert 1798-1886 Madden, 2021-09-09 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity Mamadou Badiane, 2010 The Changing Face of Afro-Caribbean Cultural Identity: Negrismo and N gritude looks primarily at Negrismo and N gritude, two literary movements that appeared in the Francophone and Hispanic Caribbean as well as in Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century. It draws on speeches and manifestos, and use cultural studies to contextualize ideas. It poses the bases of both movements in the Caribbean and in Africa, and lays out the literary antecedents that influenced or shaped both movements. This book examines the search for cultural identity through the poetry of Nicolas Guill n, Manuel del Cabral, and Pal s Matos. This search is extended to the N gritude movement through the poems of L opold Senghor, L on-Gontran Damas, and Aim C saire. Mamadou Badiane further discusses the under-represented N gritude women writers who were silenced by their male counterparts during the first half of the twentieth century. Ultimately, this is a book on Caribbean cultural identity that shows it in a slippery and fluctuating zone. By demonstrating that while the founders of the N gritude movement both identified themselves as descendants of Africans and were proud to proclaim their African heritage, the members of the Antillanit and Cr olit movements see themselves as a product of miscegenation between different cultures. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Sonia Sotomayor Jonah Winter, 2011-06-07 The inspiring and timely story of Sonia Sotomayor, who rose up from a childhood of poverty and prejudice to become the first Latino to be nominated to the US Supreme Court. Before Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor took her seat in our nation's highest court, she was just a little girl in the South Bronx. Justice Sotomayor didn't have a lot growing up, but she had what she needed -- her mother's love, a will to learn, and her own determination. With bravery she became the person she wanted to be. With hard work she succeeded. With little sunlight and only a modest plot from which to grow, Justice Sotomayor bloomed for the whole world to see. Antes de que la magistrada de la Corte Suprema Sonia Sotomayor llegara al máximo tribunal de nuestra nación, no era más que una niñita en el South Bronx. La magistrada Sotomayor no tuvo mucho durante sus primeros años, pero sí tuvo lo que contaba -- el amor de su madre, la voluntad de aprender y su propia determinación. Con valentía se hizo la persona que quería ser. Con trabajo arduo triunfó. Con un poquito de sol en un solarcito donde crecer, la magistrada Sotomayor floreció para que todo el mundo la vea. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Enchanted Air Margarita Engle, 2015-08-04 Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother s tropical island country, a place so lush with vibrant life that it seems like a fairy tale kingdom. But most of the time she lives in Los Angeles, lonely in the noisy city and dreaming of the summers when she can take a plane through the enchanted air to her beloved island. Words and images are her constant companions, friendly and comforting when the children at school are not. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Toussaint L'Ouverture Walter Dean Myers, 1996 A collection of paintings by Jacob Lawrence chronicling the liberation of Haiti in 1804 under the leadership of General Toussaint L'Ouverture. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Tropical Secrets Margarita Engle, 2009-03-31 Daniel has escaped Nazi Germany with nothing but a desperate dream that he might one day find his parents again. But that golden land called New York has turned away his ship full of refugees, and Daniel finds himself in Cuba. As the tropical island begins to work its magic on him, the young refugee befriends a local girl with some painful secrets of her own. Yet even in Cuba, the Nazi darkness is never far away . . . |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Natural Resources Trap Federico Sturzenegger, 2010 This book is important and timely, bringing together some of the world's leading economists. The theory chapters provide new insights and apply new developments in contract theory to the problems of natural resources and credible host country policies. The case studies provide up-to-date illustrations of the difficulties and development of host country policy in Latin America and the UK. Roderick Duncan, Charles Sturt University, Australia This book is likely to become a standard reference in the area of natural resources and credible host country policies-coming, as it does, with a solid grounding in modern economic theory. Tim Worrall, University of Manchester Volatility in commodity prices has been accompanied by perpetual renegotiation of contracts between private investors in natural resource production and the governments of states with mineral and energy wealth. When prices skyrocket, governments want a larger share of revenues, sometimes to the point of nationalization or expropriation; when prices fall, larger state participation becomes a burden and the private sectoris called back in. Recent and newsworthy changes in the price of oil (which fell from an all-time high of $147 in mid-2008 to $40 by year's end) are notable for their speed and the steepness of their rise and fall, but the up-and-down pattern itself is not unusual. If the unpredictability of commodity prices is so predictable, why do contracts not allow for this with mechanisms that would provide a more stable commercial framework? In The Natural Resources Trap, top scholars address this guestion in terms of both theory and practice. Theoretical contributions range across a number of fields, from contract theory to public finance, and treat topics that include taxation, royalties, and expropriation cycles. Case studies examine experiences in the U.K., Bolivia, Argentina, Venezuela, and other parts of the world. --Book Jacket. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: The Firefly Letters Margarita Engle, 2010-03-16 The freedom to roam is something that women and girls in Cuba do not have. Yet when Fredrika Bremer visits from Sweden in 1851 to learn about the people of this magical island, she is accompanied by Cecilia, a young slave who longs for her lost home in Africa. Soon Elena, the wealthy daughter of the house, sneaks out to join them. As the three women explore the lush countryside, they form a bond that breaks the barriers of language and culture. In this quietly powerful new book, award-winning poet Margarita Engle paints a portrait of early women's rights pioneer Fredrika Bremer and the journey to Cuba that transformed her life. The Firefly Letters is a 2011 Pura Belpre Honor Book for Narrative and a 2011 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year. |
| juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: This Ghostly Poetry Daniel Aguirre-Otezia, 2020-04-02 The Spanish Civil War was idealized as a poet’s war. The thousands of poems written about the conflict are memorable evidence of poetry’s high cultural and political value in those historical conditions. After Franco’s victory and the repression that followed, numerous Republican exiles relied on the symbolic agency of poetry to uphold a sense of national identity. Exilic poems are often read as claim-making narratives that fit national literary history. This Ghostly Poetry critiques this conventional understanding of literary history by arguing that exilic poems invite readers to seek continuity with a traumatic past just as they prevent their narrative articulation. The book uses the figure of the ghost to address temporal challenges to historical continuity brought about by memory, tracing the discordant, disruptive ways in which memory is interwoven with history in poems written in exile. Taking a novel approach to cultural memory, This Ghostly Poetry engages with literature, history, and politics while exploring issues of voice, time, representation, and disciplinarity. |
From Serf to Self: The Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano
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celebrated poet. Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her …
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Many young readers may not know of Juan Francisco Manzano before picking up Margarita Engle’s portrayal of the nineteenth-century Cuban poet’s life, but this gripping story of his …
Autobiography Of A Slave Manzano Full PDF - netsec.csuci.edu
autobiography of a slave manzano: The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave J. Manzano, 2015-12-19 This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of Juan …
Between Subject and Object: The Identity of a Slave in Juan …
Between Subject and Object: The Identity of a Slave in Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiography. Carmen Salama. Abstract. The purpose of this research is to explore how the oscillation …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
The Poet Slave of Cuba Margarita Engle,2015-01-13 A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in …
A Slave is a Dead Soul: Examining the Psychological Impact of …
Juan Francisco Manzano, c. 1797-c. 1854, was the first slave in the Americas to publish while still in servitude. He was born a slave in Cuba and is considered one of the founders of Cuban …
Reading through the Veil of Juan Francisco Manzano: From
the most egregious slave abuses but advocated only gradual termination of slavery. In 1835 del Monte, hoping to make available to the international aboli-tionist movement documentation of …
Rhetoric from the Margins: Juan Francisco Manzano's …
This article examines Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia de un esclavo, the only extant Spanish-language narrative written by a slave, to illuminate Manzano's reception of rhetoric, or …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, …
Racial and Textual Translation Through Signifyin(G) and Eshu: The …
depict Manzano‟s autobiography going through a process of intertextual migration between distinct languages. Migration enables Manzano‟s narrative to construct textual identity by …
Tragic Theatricality: Vulnerability and Rights in Juan Francisco ...
Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854) was a domestic slave in Cuba from birth until he was freed in 1836.1 The autobiography is a testimony to the cruelty of slavery in Cuba at a moment when …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, …
Frank E. Dobson, Jr. edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's 1835 ...
In 2007, Iberoamericana/Vervuert published William Luis's annotated critical. edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's 1835 autobiography and other writings. (personal letters of the slave, …
Nineteenth Century Autobiography in the Afro-Americas ... - JSTOR
Nineteenth Century Autobiography in the Afro-Americas: Frederick Douglass and Juan Francisco Manzano by Luis A. Jimenez Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions opens the door to an …
Self and Society in the Afro-Cuban Slave Narrative - JSTOR
Manzano's autobiography conforms thematically and structurally to this pattern, although it is unlikely that the young poet was familiar with North American slave narratives when he began …
Transnational Identities and the Crisis of Modernity: The Slave ...
The autobiography shows the changes that Manzano’s account brings to the aesthetic of romantic sacrifice, to the role of the good slave as presented by the title characters of novels such as …
From Serf to Self: The Autobiography of Juan Francisco Manzano …
With the same carefree syntax and quirky orthography, Juan Francisco Manzano goes on to narrate what appears to be the first and only slave narrative published in Spanish America. …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave (book)
juan francisco manzano autobiography of a slave: Reyita María de los Reyes Castillo Bueno, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, 2000 Assisted by her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo, the author …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
persona in Juan Francisco Manzano's slave autobiography. It highlights both the strategic need for the writer to please his immediate and distant benefactors, and the...
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave [PDF]
Juan Francisco Manzano's "Autobiography of a Slave" remains a vital document for understanding the history of slavery and its enduring consequences. It serves as a stark …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
celebrated poet. Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in Cuba in 1797, Juan Francisco Manzano spent his early years by the side of a woman who made him call her …
The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano
Many young readers may not know of Juan Francisco Manzano before picking up Margarita Engle’s portrayal of the nineteenth-century Cuban poet’s life, but this gripping story of his …
Autobiography Of A Slave Manzano Full PDF - netsec.csuci.edu
autobiography of a slave manzano: The Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave J. Manzano, 2015-12-19 This is a revised second edition of Edward Mullen's landmark scholarly presentation of …
Between Subject and Object: The Identity of a Slave in Juan Francisco ...
Between Subject and Object: The Identity of a Slave in Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiography. Carmen Salama. Abstract. The purpose of this research is to explore how the oscillation …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
The Poet Slave of Cuba Margarita Engle,2015-01-13 A lyrical biography of a Cuban slave who escaped to become a celebrated poet Born into the household of a wealthy slave owner in …
A Slave is a Dead Soul: Examining the Psychological Impact of …
Juan Francisco Manzano, c. 1797-c. 1854, was the first slave in the Americas to publish while still in servitude. He was born a slave in Cuba and is considered one of the founders of Cuban …
Reading through the Veil of Juan Francisco Manzano: From
the most egregious slave abuses but advocated only gradual termination of slavery. In 1835 del Monte, hoping to make available to the international aboli-tionist movement documentation of …
Rhetoric from the Margins: Juan Francisco Manzano's …
This article examines Juan Francisco Manzano's Autobiografia de un esclavo, the only extant Spanish-language narrative written by a slave, to illuminate Manzano's reception of rhetoric, or …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, …
Racial and Textual Translation Through Signifyin(G) and Eshu: The …
depict Manzano‟s autobiography going through a process of intertextual migration between distinct languages. Migration enables Manzano‟s narrative to construct textual identity by …
Tragic Theatricality: Vulnerability and Rights in Juan Francisco ...
Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854) was a domestic slave in Cuba from birth until he was freed in 1836.1 The autobiography is a testimony to the cruelty of slavery in Cuba at a moment …
Juan Francisco Manzano Autobiography Of A Slave
presentation of Juan Francisco Manazo's autobiography and poetry. Taking into account the extensive scholarship that has accrued in the intervening decades, this is an accessible, …
Frank E. Dobson, Jr. edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's 1835 ...
In 2007, Iberoamericana/Vervuert published William Luis's annotated critical. edition of Juan Francisco Manzano's 1835 autobiography and other writings. (personal letters of the slave, …
Nineteenth Century Autobiography in the Afro-Americas ... - JSTOR
Nineteenth Century Autobiography in the Afro-Americas: Frederick Douglass and Juan Francisco Manzano by Luis A. Jimenez Jean Jacques Rousseau's Confessions opens the door to an …
Self and Society in the Afro-Cuban Slave Narrative - JSTOR
Manzano's autobiography conforms thematically and structurally to this pattern, although it is unlikely that the young poet was familiar with North American slave narratives when he began …
Transnational Identities and the Crisis of Modernity: The Slave ...
The autobiography shows the changes that Manzano’s account brings to the aesthetic of romantic sacrifice, to the role of the good slave as presented by the title characters of novels such as …
