Jennifer C. GÓmez MenjÍvar is an associate professor at the University of North Texas.

Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography."—Jerome C. Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

• Introduction: Black Writing on AmÉfrica’s Mainland: Disruptions to the Prose of Multiculturalism Jennifer Carolina GÓmez MenjÍvarPart I: AmÉfrica’s Poetics1. Language and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Afro-Mexican Corridos or Ballads Paulette A. Ramsay2 A Post-Ethnic/Racial Futurescape in Wingston GonzÁlez’s cafeina MC| Juan Guillermo SÁnchez MartÍnez3. Antonio Preciado: Ecuador’s Afrocentric Poet Michael HandelsmanPart II: Lettered Outliers4. Transatlantic Routing and Rooting in Quince Duncan’s Kimbo | Gloria E. ChacÓn5. The Palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian Woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera’s Camino a Mariato |Ángela Castro6. Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva’s #Parem de nÓs matar|Eliseo JacobPart III: Intellectual Sonar7. Other Forests: The Afro-Brazilian Literary Archive Isis Barra Costa8. Coloniality Via the Vocabulary of Afro-Chilean Music-Dance Juan Eduardo Wolf9. Xiomara Cacho Caballero: Linguistic Revitalization on Central America’s Narco Islands Jennifer Carolina GÓmez MenjÍvar10. Reclaiming Lands, Identity, and Autonomy: Rap Lyrics in Rural ChocÓ, Colombia Diana RodrÍguez QuevedoAfterword Mamadou BadianeList of ContributorsNotesBibliographyIndex

Jennifer C. GÓmez MenjÍvar is an associate professor at the University of North Texas.

Coherent and well written . . . draws attention to relatively obscure and unattended areas of literary and cultural production in Afro-Hispanic cartography."—Jerome C. Branche, author of The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings

• Introduction: Black Writing on AmÉfrica’s Mainland: Disruptions to the Prose of Multiculturalism Jennifer Carolina GÓmez MenjÍvarPart I: AmÉfrica’s Poetics1. Language and the Construction of Gendered Identities in Afro-Mexican Corridos or Ballads Paulette A. Ramsay2 A Post-Ethnic/Racial Futurescape in Wingston GonzÁlez’s cafeina MC| Juan Guillermo SÁnchez MartÍnez3. Antonio Preciado: Ecuador’s Afrocentric Poet Michael HandelsmanPart II: Lettered Outliers4. Transatlantic Routing and Rooting in Quince Duncan’s Kimbo | Gloria E. ChacÓn5. The Palimpsestic Afro-Panamanian Woman in Melanie Taylor Herrera’s Camino a Mariato |Ángela Castro6. Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva’s #Parem de nÓs matar|Eliseo JacobPart III: Intellectual Sonar7. Other Forests: The Afro-Brazilian Literary Archive Isis Barra Costa8. Coloniality Via the Vocabulary of Afro-Chilean Music-Dance Juan Eduardo Wolf9. Xiomara Cacho Caballero: Linguistic Revitalization on Central America’s Narco Islands Jennifer Carolina GÓmez MenjÍvar10. Reclaiming Lands, Identity, and Autonomy: Rap Lyrics in Rural ChocÓ, Colombia Diana RodrÍguez QuevedoAfterword Mamadou BadianeList of ContributorsNotesBibliographyIndex