Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
17 - The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Studies and Literatures
from Part III - Negotiating Literary Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapters reviews the academic debates over the African-American, Latino, and Afro-Latin@ dimensions of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg's legacy as a race intellectual, bibliophile, collector, and curator of documents, manuscripts, publications, prints, and other artifacts related to the African Diaspora in the Americas. It analyzes and contrasts scholarship on Schomburg's legacies by African-American, Anglo-Caribbean, and Puerto Rican scholars from Elinor Des Verney Sinnette to Flor Piñeiro de Rivera, from James Winston to Lisa Sánchez González and Kevin Meehan, in the light of recent theories about afrolatinidad by Juan Flores, Miriam Jiménez-Román, and Antonio López, among others. By focusing on evolving structures of mentorship throughout Schomburg's career--as John Edward Bruce's protegé and as collaborator with Alain Locke and Langston Hughes--, it shows how Schomburg sought to harmonize Pan-Africanist historiography (centered on continental Africa as motherland) with Latino Pan-Americanism (focused on Mediterranean-to-New World colonial and postcolonial interconnections) by striving for an archive that could redefine the Mediterrenean Renaissance as the Afro-Latin cultural outcome of Southern European and North-and-Central African socioeconomic and migratory relations.
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