Paulette Ramsay

Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker LÉlia Gonzalez, AmÉfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin American mainland. To capture a sense of the variety of their contributions, this book spans Mexico, Central America, the Andes, and the Southern Cone—highlighting the transcontinental nature of the legacy of Black writing and its impact beyond national boundaries. The writers examined in the volume engage with regional intellectual frameworks while putting into circulation a demand for a recalibration of the Hispanophone and Lusophone contexts in which they and other Afrodescendants reside.

Traditional histories of Black letters in Latin America have delimited their geographic scope to the Caribbean while also omitting intertwined Afro-Indigenous discourses. Inspired by the legacy of Amefrican thinker LÉlia Gonzalez, AmÉfrica in Letters highlights the Black poets, songwriters, novelists, essayists, and bloggers who have created a counter-multiculturalist literary history on the Latin American mainland. To capture a sense of the variety of their contributions, this book spans Mexico, Central America, the Andes, and the Southern Cone—highlighting the transcontinental nature of the legacy of Black writing and its impact beyond national boundaries. The writers examined in the volume engage with regional intellectual frameworks while putting into circulation a demand for a recalibration of the Hispanophone and Lusophone contexts in which they and other Afrodescendants reside.

Paulette Ramsay is a lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages at U. W. I., Mona. She received her M. A. in Spanish Language and Literature and her Ph. D. in Spanish from U. W. I. Her training includes research methodology, evaluation and assessment strategies, translation, writing and interpreting at regional conferences. She is a member of Associatio?n Internacional de Traductores, Int rpretes y Profesores del Espan?ol. (A. I. T. I. P. E) Anne Maria Bankay is a lecturer in Spanish at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at U. W. I, Mona. She received her M. A. in Spanish at U. W. I. and her Ph. D in Spanish and Portuguese from Stanford University, California. An educationist and academic, she also specialises in International Development Education, and methodology. She has contributed as a writer/reviewer for academic journals and presented papers at regional conferences. About the Book These assessment papers are designed to fully prepare students for the new sections of the CXC Spanish Examination effective from the 1998 May-June Examinations. This invaluable book is specifically geared to the CXC Spanish programme in Jamaica and other Caribbean countries which do this examination. It provides several comprehensive exercises, using original material, on each new section of the syllabus: 1 Listening Comprehension-Basic and General 11 Situations-Basic and General Proficiency 111 Letters/Dialogues/Compositions-General Proficiency 1V Reading Comprehension-Basic Proficiency V Reading Comprehension-General