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In Place, Language, and Identity in Afro-Costa Rican Literature, Dorothy E. Mosby investigates contemporary black writing from Costa Rica and argues that it reveals the story of a people formed by multiple migrations and cultural transformations. Afro-Costa Rican writers from different historical periods express their relation to place, language, and identity as a "process," a transformation partly due to sociohistorical circumstances and partly in reaction against the national myths of whiteness in the dominant Hispanic culture. Black writers in Costa Rica have used creative writing as a means to express this change in self-identity -- as West Indians, as Costa Ricans, as "Latinos," and as a contentious union of all these cultural identifications -- as well as to combat myths and extrinsic definitions of their culture.Mosby examines the transformation of identity in works by black writers in Costa Rica of Afro-West Indian descent as particular national identities find common ground in the expression of an Afro-Costa Rican identity. These writers include Alderman Johnson Roden, Dolores Joseph, Eulalia Bernard, Quince Duncan, Shirley Campbell, and Delia McDonald, all of whose works

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Author

Dorothy E Mosby; Ebrary, Inc

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826264022

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14