Améfrica in Letters

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