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  • Chapter 8 - Arts and Literature

  • Edited and translated by Paulina Laura Alberto, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, George Reid Andrews, University of Pittsburgh, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Book:
    Voices of the Race
    Published online:
    25 August 2022
    Print publication:
    01 September 2022, pp 297-337

  • Summary

    Latin America’s Black newspapers and magazines were sites for both dissemination and extensive discussion of literature and the arts.Culture was no less important to Black editors and writers than politics or social commentary. The papers published numerous stories, poems, and serializations of novels. They included profiles of important Black artists, writers, and musicians and debated the quality of their work.Their efforts to alert readers to the existence and the achievements of Black cultural creators simultaneously created space for the development of Black cultural theory and arts criticism. This chapter includes several creative works, an extended review of a long-form poem, reporting on the lives and deaths of individual authors, and an account of a female cook whose aspirations to become a writer were never realized.Other articles provide probing reflections on the relationship of Blackness to artistic expression, and on what it meant to be a Black artist.