Description: How writers and their ideologies both contested and affirmed slavery in fascinating exchanges
Brief description: Julia C. Paulk is associate professor of Spanish at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Specializing in nineteenth-century Cuban and comparative literature, Paulk has published scholarly articles in such journals as Afro-Hispanic Review, Latin American Literary Review, Hispanófila, Luso-Brazilian Review, and Revista Hispánica Moderna. She is currently at work on a book-length study of the representation of indentured Chinese in Cuban literature.
Review Quotes: By exploring how coloniality shaped narratives from both 'inside' and 'outside' Cuba, Paulk manages to deepen our understanding of how racial and imperial ideologies operated during the nineteenth century. This is an invaluable text as the study's insights could inform readers' understandings of the era and the lasting effects of coloniality.--Nicole Roberts, coeditor of Trinidad y Tobago/Cuba: Historia, Lengua y Literatura