Postmodern Tales of Slavery in the Americas: From Alejo Carpentier to Charles Johnson (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

This study analyzes the postmodern aesthetics common to seven tales of slavery from the USA, Martinique and Guadeloupe, Cuba and Columbia. The seven texts are: Alejo Carpentier's "El reino de este mundo" (1949), Miguel Barnet's "Biografia de un cimarr on" (1966), Andr e Schwarz-Bart's "La mul atresse Solitude" (1972), Manuel Zapata Olivella's "Chang o, el gran putas" (1983), Maryse Cond e's "Moi, Tituba, sorci ere...noire de Salem" (1986), Toni Morrison's "Beloved" (1987) and Charles Johnson's "Middle Passage" (1990).