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By Jose F. Buscaglia-Salgado
Buscaglia-Salgado starts with an exam of Washington Irving's "American Columbiad" as an act of ancient and territorial plundering. He then lines the roots of mulatto society to the pre-1492 Iberian international, not just discovering a connection among the Moors of "Old Spain" and the morenos-the blacks and mulattos of the hot World-but additionally supplying a profound critique of creole and imperial discourses. Buscaglia-Salgado reads the pursuit and contestation of what he phrases the ecu perfect in colonial texts, structure, and work; then identifies the mulatto move of "undoing" the perfect within the wars that shook the nineteenth-century Caribbean from Haiti to Cuba, arguing that convinced tasks of nationwide liberation have moved opposite to the ancient claims to freedom within the mulatto world.
José F. Buscaglia-Salgado is assistant professor of contemporary languages and comparative literature and director of Cuban and Caribbean courses on the college at Buffalo.
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