scholarly journals En el umbral del horror: Técnicas y funciones del terror en Autobiografía de un esclavo de Juan Francisco Manzano

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-125
Author(s):  
Damián V. Solano Escolano
Keyword(s):  
Juan Francisco Manzano

Present but Unseen

2020 ◽  
pp. 120-158
Author(s):  
Matthew Pettway
Keyword(s):  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Sugar Plantation ◽  
Juan Francisco Manzano ◽  
The Way

This chapter discusses how Juan Francisco Manzano created two apparently contradictory freedom narratives: the first grounded in Enlightenment ideals of liberty and the second one premised on the secret powers of African-inspired ritual.By privileging Manzano’s slave narrative and his unpublished poetry, this chapter deciphers the way he wrote about spirit presence, the sacred wilderness and the ritual of escape.Poems such as “A Dream: For My Second Brother,” “The Poet’s Vision Composed on a Sugar Plantation,” “Poesies,” and “Desperation” explore African ideas of spirit and cosmos as part of a larger antislavery philosophy.The dream motif, the mountain wilderness, transfiguration, anachronism and magical flight emerges as Romantic tropes that created space for an African-Cuban religious persona in Manzano’s poetry and prose.In this way, the notion that Manzano assimilated to Spanish Catholicism unproblematically is contested and disproven.

A autobiografia do poeta-escravo, de Juan Francisco Manzano

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (15) ◽  
pp. 145-148
Author(s):  
Liliam Ramos Da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Juan Francisco Manzano

Resenha do livro:MANZANO. Juan Francisco. A autobiografia do poeta-escravo. Organização, tradução e notas de Alex Castro. São Paulo: Hedra, 2015. 223p.

Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Pettway
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Cuban Literature ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Redemptive Suffering ◽  
Black Freedom ◽  
African Spirituality ◽  
Juan Francisco Manzano ◽  
History Of

Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés (also known as Plácido) were perhaps the most important and innovative Cuban writers of African descent during the Spanish colonial era.Both nineteenth-century authors used Catholicism as a symbolic language for African-inspired spirituality.Likewise, Plácido and Manzano subverted the popular imagery of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in order to envision black freedom in the tradition of the Haitian Revolution.African religious knowledge subverted official Catholic dogma about redemptive suffering that might free the soul but leave the body enchained.Rather, Plácido and Manzano envisioned emancipation through the lens of African spirituality, which constituted a transformative moment in the history of Cuban letters. Matthew Pettway examines how the portrayal of African ideas of spirit and cosmos in otherwise conventional texts recur throughout early Cuban literature and became the basis for Manzano and Plácido’s antislavery philosophy.Cuban debates about freedom and selfhood were never the exclusive domain of the white Creole elite.Pettway’s emphasis on African-inspired spirituality as a source of knowledge and a means to sacred authority for black Cuban writers deepens our understanding of Manzano and Plácido not as mere imitators but as aesthetic and political pioneers.

Reading through the Veil of Juan Francisco Manzano: From Homoerotic Violence to the Dream of a Homoracial Bond

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Richmond Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Slave Narrative ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Slave System ◽  
Juan Francisco Manzano ◽  
The Veil

The Autobiografía of the Cuban slave poet Juan Francisco Manzano is the only Spanish American slave narrative written by a person living in slavery. In this text Manzano recounts his corporal punishments in graphic detail but explicitly veils certain key episodes of abuse. I contend that this veil is a marker of sexual assault and that the Autobiografía bears silent testimony to the rape of male slaves. Manzano, however, was not only a victim of homoerotic violence; in one of his poems, “Un sueño” (“A Dream”), he reconfigures homoerotic desire in a way that tentatively reconstitutes his self-integrity and establishes a bond of reciprocity with his enslaved brother. In Manzano's writing, then, homoeroticism is transformed from an instrument of oppression into an act of resistance that challenges the racist and masculinist violence of the colonial slave system.

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