Black in Print

Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar is Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of North Texas. She is coeditor (with Héctor Nicolás Ramos Flores) of Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability; editor of Amefrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone; coeditor (with Gloria Elizabeth Chacón) of Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America; and coauthor (with William Noel Salmon) of Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize.

"Black in Print challenges commonplaces about mestizo Central America, bringing to light 'new' Guatemalan-Belizean Garifuna works and tracing a genealogy of Blackness that will enrich literary studies of the region." — Yvette Aparicio, author of Post-Conflict Central American Literature: Searching for Home and Longing to Belong"Gómez Menjívar's book is a welcome addition to studies of Central America, both for its breadth and for its focus on narratives of Blackness. Far from concentrating on a single period or corpus of texts, Black in Print proposes a matrix to understand and analyze how Blackness has played out in discourses about the nation and national identity across different locales and contexts." — Jorge Marturano, author of Narrativas de encierro en la República cubana

• List of IllustrationsPreface: Coastal StoriesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Fictions of Blackness and Their Narrative PowerPart 1. Pacific/Pacífico 1. Disappearing ActsPart 2. Interior/Centro 2. Strategies of Containment3. Mesoamerican Core, Kriol PeripheryPart 3. Caribbean/Caribe 4. Multicultural Plots5. From Caribbean Sea to Digital ShoreConclusion: The Battlegrounds of Central American IdentityAppendix: Transcript of the "Cocorí" Episode on Radio AmbulanteNotesWorks CitedIndex