In addressing the analytical concepts of curiosity, identities, and knowledge, the chapter questions the dominance of an ideologically biased framework based on the Foucault–Saidian power–knowledge nexus that privileges the ideological assumption that imperialist appropriations of space are the human condition of travel writings. In linking travels and experiences of human encounters, the chapter enquires into the relations between time and space by linking the historiographical traditions of travel writings on Asian spaces as readings of space across time with a critical analysis of the development of conceptualisations and inventions of Asian spaces. The first chapter reflects on the nature of travelling as the paradigmatic form of human experience and its literary reflection in travel writings. Slavery thus remains the dominant theme in Afro-Latin American literature over a century after abolition because it reflects not only the past but also Afro-Latin Americans’ ongoing struggle for racial justice in the present. In a twentieth and twenty-first century context, slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative corrects the dominant cultural and political narrative that widespread racial mixture is both the product and proof of racial harmony in various Latin American countries. These more contemporary works from Cuba and Puerto Rico (Chapter 2) and Colombia and Brazil (Chapter 3) contribute to black Latin Americans’ collective memory through the expansion of antislavery discourse to include broader literary experimentation and greater representation of black women’s perspectives. This dissertation therefore looks at Afro-Latin American literary narrative from not only the nineteenth century (Chapter 1) but also the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, including 'Biografía de un cimarrón,' 'Reyita, sencillamente,' 'Fe en disfraz,' 'las Negras,' 'Changó, el gran putas,' 'Um defeito de cor,' and assorted writings by Carolina Maria de Jesus. These works depict the horrors of slavery from black people’s perspectives, but they were shaped by white editors and the dominant literary and political discourses of their times. Maria Firmina dos Reis’s 'Úrsula' is the first antislavery novel in Brazil, and it was written by an Afro-Brazilian woman. Baquaqua' are invaluable firsthand narrative accounts of slavery in Latin America. 'Autobiografía' by Juan Francisco Manzano and 'Biography of Mahommah G. Scholars have tended to observe the irony that there are relatively few Latin American “slave narratives,” but Afro-Latin American literary narrative is rooted in the struggle against slavery. Of the approximately 12.5 million Africans trafficked in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 7 million were enslaved in present-day Latin America. This dissertation is the most comprehensive survey of slavery in Afro-Latin American literary narrative to date.
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