Afro-Mexican constructions of diaspora, gender, identity and nation /
Paulette A. Ramsay.
- Kingston, Jamaica : UWI P., 2016.
- [xx], 204 p. : ill., map, photos.
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Father Glyn Jemmott Nelson -- Introduction -- Racial and ethnic diversity in Mexico through the distorted lens of Memín Pinguín -- Constructions of gender and nation in selected Afro-Mexican folktales -- Masculinity, language and power in selected Afro-Mexican Corridos -- Place, racial and cultural identities in selected Afro-Mexican oral and lyric verses -- Afro-Mexico in the context of a Caribbean literary and cultural aesthetics -- Conclusion.
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Mexican literature--Black authors--History and criticism. Arts, Black--Mexico--Costa Chica. Blacks--Intellectual life.--Mexico