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Quince Duncan : Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity by Dr. Dorothy E. Mosby d is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica’s first novelist of African descent and one of the nation’s most esteemed contemporary writers. The grandson of Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants to Limón, Quince Duncan (b. 1940) incorporates personal memories into stories about first generation Afro–West Indian immigrants and their descendants in Costa Rica. Duncan’s novels, short stories, recompilations of oral literature, and essays intimately convey the challenges of Afro–West Indian contract laborers and the struggles of their descendants to be recognized as citizens of the nation they helped bring into modernity. Through his storytelling, Duncan has become an important literary and cultural presence in a country that forged its national identity around the leyenda blanca (white legend) of a rural democracy established by a homogeneous group of white, Catholic, and Spanish peasants. By presenting legends and stories of Limón Province as well as discussing the complex issues of identity, citizenship, belonging, and cultural exile, Duncan has written the story of West Indian migration into the official literary discourse of

Who reads Quince Duncan : Writing Afro-Costa Rican and Caribbean Identity?

Author

Dr. Dorothy E. Mosby d

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817387228

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24