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Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

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Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to tell the story of Jamaican migration to Costa Rica. Duncan’s work has been growing in popularity among scholars and teachers of Afro-Latin American literature and African Diaspora Studies. This translation brings two of his major novels to English-speaking audiences for the first time, Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors. The book will be invaluable for those eager to develop further their background in Afro-Latin American literature, and it will enable students and faculty members in other fields such as comparative literature to engage with the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American literary studies.

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3319975358

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Quince Duncan

Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

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Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers. The grandson of Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants to Limón, Quince Duncan (b. 1940) incorporates personal memories into stories about first generation Afro–West Indian immigrants and their descendants in Costa Rica. Duncan’s novels, short stories, recompilations of oral literature, and essays intimately convey the challenges of Afro–West Indian contract laborers and the struggles of their descendants to be recognized as citizens of the nation they helped bring into modernity. Through his storytelling, Duncan has become an important literary and cultural presence in a country that forged its national identity around the leyenda blanca (white legend) of a rural democracy established by a homogeneous group of white, Catholic, and Spanish peasants. By presenting legends and stories of Limón Province as well as discussing the complex issues of identity, citizenship, belonging, and cultural exile, Duncan has written the story of West Indian migration into the official literary discourse of Costa Rica. His novels Hombres curtidos (1970) and Los cuatro espejos (1973) in particular portray the Afro–West Indian community in Limón and the cultural intolerance encountered by those of African-Caribbean descent who migrated to San José. Because his work follows the historical trajectory from the first West Indian laborers to the contemporary concerns of Afro–Costa Rican people, Duncan is as much a cultural critic and sociologist as he is a novelist. In Quince Duncan, Dorothy E. Mosby combines biographical information on Duncan with geographic and cultural context for the analysis of his works, along with plot summaries and thematic discussions particularly helpful to readers new to Duncan.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817313494

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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

With the current growth of interest in Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Latin American cultural and literary studies, this book will be essential for courses in Latin American and Caribbean literature, comparative studies, diaspora studies, history, cultural studies, and the literature of migration."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826264026

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9780826264022

Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

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Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity

By: Dorothy E. Mosby

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Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

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Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature

Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors

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