Beyond the Quilombo? The State of Zumbi’s “Palmares” According to the Poets

Abstract

Dawn Duke is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Chair of Africana Studies and faculty in the Latin American Studies and Cinema Studies Programs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her graduate studies were completed at UNICAMP, the University of Guyana, and the University of Pittsburgh, where she completed her PhD in 2003. Her research focuses on Afro-Latin American Literature with a special interest in women's writings. Her book, Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers (2008) proposes a tradition of Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Brazilian women's writings initiated primarily during the nineteenth century and continuing with ever-increasing success into the twenty-first century.