Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Literature of Cuba and Brazil

Nineteenth-Century Abolitionist Literature of Cuba and Brazil Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• The Portrait of the Slave: Ideology and Aesthetics in the Cuban Antislavery Novel
• Castro Alves and His Successors
• Criticism: Origins And Development
  • The Negro Theme in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
  • The Antislavery Novel and the Concept of Modernity
  • Fiction and Fact: The Antislavery Narrative and Blacks as Counter-Discourse in Cuban History
• Criticism: Sociopolitical Concerns
  • Abolition in Brazil: Anti-Slavery and Anti-Slave
  • The Antislavery Narrative: Writing and the European Aesthetic
• Criticism: Prose
  • The Negro in the Romantic Novel
  • The Anti-Slavery Novel in Cuba: Indians and Negroes
  • The Abolitionist Novel in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
  • Self and Society in the Afro-Cuban Slave Narrative
  • The Production and Consumption of Propaganda Literature: The Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel
  • Ennobling Savagery? Sentimentalism and the Subaltern in Sab.
• Further Reading