Quince Duncan's Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors - Two Novels of Afro-Costa Rican Identity (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)


Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to tell the story of Jamaican migration to Costa Rica. Duncan's work has been growing in popularity among scholars and teachers of Afro-Latin American literature and African Diaspora Studies. This translation brings two of his major novels to English-speaking audiences for the first time, Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors. The book will be invaluable for those eager to develop further their background in Afro-Latin American literature, and it will enable students and faculty members in other fields such as comparative literature to engage with the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American literary studies.

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Quince Duncan is one of the most significant yet understudied Black writers in the Americas. A third-generation Afro-Costa Rican of West Indian heritage, he is the first novelist of African descent to tell the story of Jamaican migration to Costa Rica. Duncan's work has been growing in popularity among scholars and teachers of Afro-Latin American literature and African Diaspora Studies. This translation brings two of his major novels to English-speaking audiences for the first time, Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors. The book will be invaluable for those eager to develop further their background in Afro-Latin American literature, and it will enable students and faculty members in other fields such as comparative literature to engage with the burgeoning area of Afro-Latin American literary studies.

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Product Details

General

Imprint

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Country of origin

Switzerland

Series

Afro-Latin@ Diasporas

Release date

December 2018

Availability

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

First published

2018

Authors

Dimensions

210 x 148 x 13mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback

Pages

241

Edition

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018

ISBN-13

978-3-03-007370-1

Barcode

9783030073701

Categories

LSN

3-03-007370-X



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