Episode 117: CUBAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF BLACK INSURRECTION
In Matthew Pettway’s book, CUBAN LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF BLACK INSURRECTION He reveals how Juan Francisco Manzano and Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés used poetry to transform early Cuban literature into an instrument of black liberation from the 1820s to the 1840s. In 1844, Manzano and Valdés, who was known by the pen name Placido, were arrested and charged with aiding and abetting a conspiracy to abolish slavery and depose the regime.
Matthew Pettway is an assistant professor of Spanish who focuses on Spanish Language, Latin American Literature, and Afro-Caribbean Studies.
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