Ramsay, Paulette A.,

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

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