La Coleccionista de Espejos

1 Disertación dada en The IDB Cultural Center, abril 2009. Abstract: Gender and Identity in the Caribbean: Afro-Costa Rican Women Writers; Syracuse University Professor Dr. D. Kwame Dixon, will examine the literary discourse of Afro-Costa Rican writers with particular emphasis on the works of Eulalia Bernard, Shirley Campbell, and most Delia McDonald, Afro-Hispanic writers, socially excluded by the traditional Latin American literary canon because their writing is considered too specific in its themes on the black experience. It is argued that the writings of Afro-Hispanic writers are socially cleansed from the larger literary canon of Caribbean and Latin American literature. This discussion aims to show how Afro-Costa Rican women, through use of identity and gendered discourses, situate Afro-Hispanic writing within the larger frame of Latin American and Caribbean literature. This lecture is being presented in anticipation of National Caribbean American Cultural Studies, Heritag...