Race and the Critical Trajectory of Espejo de paciencia (1608, 1838) in the Nineteenth Century

Abstract

This article examines nineteenth-century citations of Silvestre de Balboa Troya y Quesada’s Espejo de paciencia (1608, 1838) in Cuban histories and literary anthologies of that period. Although contemporary scholars reference these citations in their study of Espejo, they have not questioned the treatment of Salvador Golomón, the poem’s enslaved epic hero, in these texts. Doing so not only elucidates concerns regarding race in Cuban nation building reflected in the trajectory of the nineteenth-century citations of the poem but also places race at the very center of any discussion of Espejo’s historical and literary authenticity by contemporary critics and scholars alike.

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