Abstract
This study takes a comparative look at Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian women’s poetic production in order to chart their development from written object to writing subject. By tracing the progression of the poetic voice and identifying common thematic approaches in the process of women’s empowerment, Duke emphasizes what she terms a “woman-centered aesthetic” (11).
Highlights
The choice of Cuba and Brazil allows the author to draw on common textual approaches by women of African descent, as well as compare and contrast their responses to and engagement with social movements, national political discourses and black female activism in both countries, during significant moments of political development
The second part of the chapter explores the existence of an Afro-Brazilian female poetics through the placement of more studied writers, like Miriam Alves, Conceição Evaristo and Carolina Maria de Jesus, alongside lesser-known authors like Geni Guimarães and Alva Rufino
Chapter Four sets the foundation of a woman-centered poetics through a study of specific poems by Morejón, Herrera, Esmeralda Ribeiro, Rufino, Guimarães, Evaristo and Alves
Summary
Chapter Four sets the foundation of a woman-centered poetics through a study of specific poems by Morejón, Herrera, Esmeralda Ribeiro, Rufino, Guimarães, Evaristo and Alves. Studies of the literature of women writers of African descent in the Americas have highlighted issues of objectification and subjectivity, silencing and voice, and individual development and collective mobilization within histories of colonialism, slavery and the African diaspora.
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