Beschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Dorothy E. Mosby is Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies at Mount Holyoke College, USA. She is also a member and former chair of the Africana Studies Program. She specializes in the expression of ethnic, cultural, and national identity in texts by Afro-descendent Central American writers, particularly those of Anglophone West Indian heritage. In the classroom, Dr. Mosby teaches courses on the African Diaspora in the Americas, race and ethnicity in Latin America, Afro-Latin American and Caribbean women writers, and Central American literature. She is author of Quince Duncan: Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Afro-Caribbean Identity (2014) and Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature (2003).
