Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities

Representations of Blackness and the Performance of IdentitiesThe essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in part, the world in which we live. An important aspect of the struggles of dominated people consists in more or less overtly challenging, manipulating, combatting, negating, and

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Such incorporation leads to literary works that are “black” not by virtue of their representations of black characters

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Myths have been seen as an important key to oral cultures