Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu highlights the significant contributions of women in the African diaspora to the Americas.
A translation to English of the highly influential Hijas del Muntu, the chapters of this edited collection illuminate life experiences and examine narrative threads and traces of identity whose common theme is the history of struggle for equal rights and participation in society. The diverse women in these stories come from all walks of life, from to singers and poets to favela leaders and mainstream politicians. Their stories are told through interviews, personal accounts, and traditional academic biography.
Stories of Latin American Women of African Heritage: Daughters of Muntu will be a valuable resource to those interested in Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, and Race Studies among other disciplines.
Prologue: Black Women in Cuban Literature of Centuries Past Introduction Argentina 1. White Mothers and Wet Nurses 2. My Beautiful Black Sisters Brazil 3. Watercolors of Brazil: Shades of a Society, From Pigmentocracy towards Democracy 4. Benedita da Silva: From the Favelas of Rio to the Halls of Power 5. The Black Voice of a Favelada: Race, Gender and Nation in the Testimony of Carolina Maria de Jesus Colombia 6. Afro-Colombian Women’s Music: La Negra Grande de Colombia and Totó la Momposina 7. Lolia Pomare Myles: A Bridge Between the Old World and the New 8. Piedad Esneda Córdoba Ruiz: Between Controversy and Conviction 9. The Voice of Edelma Zapata Pérez – Afro-Colombian Poet Interview 10. Afro-Colombian Women Voices from the Margin: Mary Grueso Romero and María Elcina Valencia Córdoba 11. María Teresa Ramírez and María de los Ángeles Popov: Heiresses of Yemaya and Changó 12. Goyo: Driving Chocoano Rap 13. Life Stories of Women from Palenque in Organizations in the Colombian Caribbean Costa Rica 14. Emphatically Black. Reading the Poetry of Costa Rica’s Shirley Campbell Barr Cuba 15. An Island for Sara Gómez 16. Hilda Oates: An Afro-descendant Cuban Actress 17. Omara Portuondo: The Diva of Cuban Music from Las D’Aida to Buena Vista Social Club 18. The Poetic World of Nancy Morejón 19. Raise Your Voice, Break the Margins: Rap and Female Discourse 20. Celia Cruz: Live to Sing Ecuador 21. Luz Argentina Chiriboga, “Esmeraldas’ Star” Honduras 22. Ritual Practices of Globalization: Garifuna Women Mexico 23. Luz María Martínez Montiel: “Ambassador of the African Renaissance in Latin America and Mexico” Peru 24. Fortitude and Charisma: Victoria Santa Cruz 25. Woman, Mother, and Leader: María Elena Moyano and the Courage of Commitment Puerto Rico 26. Ruth Fernández: The Soul of Puerto Rico in Song 27. Breaking Paradigms and Creating New Archetypes: The Black Character in the Works of Mayra Santos Febres 28. Queeriqueña Futures and Black Liberation in the Work of Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro Dominican Republic 29. Salomé Ureña de Henríquez (1850-1897) 30. The Triple Marginality: Florinda Soriano (Mamá Tingó) 31. Sherezada Vicioso and the Construction of Her Own Caribbean Uruguay 32. Stars in the South: Martha Gularte, Lágrima Ríos and Rosa Luna 33. Alba Roballo: “Nevertheless, I am alive” 34. An Interview with Cristina Rodríguez Cabral: The Continuous Process of Identity and Its Poetic Projection Venezuela 35. Carmen Verde Arocha: “I believe being a poet is a destiny”
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