Black Writers and Latin America: Cross-Cultural Affinities Book

	Introduction: The International Dimension in U.S. Black Writing	1
1	U.S. Black Writers and Spain	15
	The Spanish Civil War and Its Aftermath	15
	The Black Writer Resident in Spain	27
2	U.S. Black Writers and Latin America	41
	From Spain to Latin America	41
	The Black "Womanist" Writer and Brazil	47
	Mexican Interludes	53
	The Impact of Cuba and Chile	71
3	The Influence of U.S. Black Writers	81
	The Slave Narratives	81
	The Example of Langston Hughes	82
	Harlem and the Jazz Age: Black Modernism as Model and Threat	94
	From Wright to Revolution	98
	From Black Power and the Turbulent Sixties to Roots	102
4	Hispanic Black Writers and the United States	113
	Racism and Black America	113
	The Hispanic Black Writer in the United States	133
5	Black Writers in Latin America Today	143
	From Old Guard to New	143
	Nancy Morejon, the "New Woman" in Cuba, and the First Generation of Black Writers of the Revolution	144
	Black Writers in Central America, the Dominican Republic, and South America	150
	Tradition and Renewal	161
	Conclusion: Hispanic Black Criticism and the North American Perspective	169
	Selected Bibliography	181
	Index	195