
Black in Print
Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Black in Print
Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
About this book
Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.
Black in Print examines the role of narrative, from traditional writing to new media, in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that the production, circulation, and consumption of stories has led to a trans-isthmian imaginary that splits the region along racial and geographic lines into a white-mestizo Pacific coast, an Indigenous core, and a Black Caribbean. Across five chapters, Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar identifies a series of key moments in the history of the development of this imaginary: Independence, Intervention, Cold-War, Post-Revolutionary, and Digital Age. Gómez Menjívar's analysis ranges from literary beacons such as Rubén Darío and Miguel Ángel Asturias to less studied intellectuals such as Wingston González and Carl Rigby. The result is a fresh approach to race, the region, and its literature. Black in Print understands Central American Blackness as a set of shifting coordinates plotted on the axes of language, geography, and time as it moves through print media.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface: Coastal Stories
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Fictions of Blackness and Their Narrative Power
- Part 1. Pacific/Pacífico
- Part 2. Interior/Centro
- Part 3. Caribbean/Caribe
- Conclusion: The Battlegrounds of Central American Identity
- Appendix: Transcript of the “Cocorí” Episode on Radio Ambulante
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Back Cover