Writing for inclusion literature, race, and national identity in nineteenth-century Cuba and the United States / Karen Kornweibel.

Contents Reflections on Afro-Cuban and African American discourses of identity -- Countering negation in Juan Francisco Manzano and Frederick Douglass's early texts and patronage relationships -- Common narrative threads in the Autobiografía de Juan Francisco Manzano and narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave -- The discourse of the future citizen in the nonfiction of Martín Morúa Delgado and Charles W. Chesnutt -- Generating the future citizen in Morúa Delgado's Sofía and Chesnutt's The house behind the cedars.
Abstract "Writing for Inclusion examines four nineteenth-century Afro-Cuban and African American writers--Juan Francisco Manzano, Frederick Douglass, Martín Morúa Delgado, and Charles W. Chesnutt--whose works provide examples of self-emancipation, interrogate the terms of exclusion from the nation, and argue for inclusive visions of national identity" -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Kornweibel, Karen, author. Writing for inclusion Vancouver : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2018] 9781683930976
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