Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from The Arcadia Fund https://archive.org/details/representationofOOwill THE REPRESENTATION OF SLAVERY in CUBAN FICTION THE REPRESENTATION OF SLAVERY in CUBAN FICTION Lortm Valerie Williams University of Missouri Press • Columbia and London Copyright © 1994 by The Curators of the University of Missouri University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201 Printed and bound in the United States of America All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 98 97 96 95 94 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Williams, Lorna V. The representation of slavery in Cuban fiction / Lorna Valerie Williams, p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8262-0957-2 (alk. paper) 1. Cuban fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Cuban fiction—20th century—History and criticism. 3. Slavery and slaves in literature. 4. Cuban prose literature—19th century—History and criticism. I. Title. PQ7382.W55 1994 863—dc2o 94-6238 CIP @ TM This paper meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, Z39.48, 1984. Designer: Kristie Lee Typesetter: Connell-Zeko Type & Graphics Printer and binder: Thomson-Shore, Inc. Typeface: Galliard Contents Preface vii 1. Introduction i 2. Juan Francisco Manzano’s Autobiografia: Narrating the Unspeakable 21 3. Anselmo Suarez y Romero’s Francisco: The Primacy of the Sentimental 52 4. Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda’s Sab: The Feminized Slave 84 5. Antonio Zambrana’s Other Francisco 119 6. Martin Morua Delgado’s Sofia: Rewriting Cecilia Valdes 159 Bibliography 201 Index 217