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Finding La Negrita: Author Talk with Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Mon, Dec 05
|www.crowdcast.io/e/finding-la-negrita
Come hear from Dr. Natasha Gordon-Chipembere as she unpacks the process of bringing this modern day Black Madonna retelling to life.
Time & Location
Dec 05, 2022, 7:00 PM
www.crowdcast.io/e/finding-la-negrita
About the Event
About the Book:
Finding La Negrita is a captivating retelling of the Black Madonna narrative, which has driven Costa Rica’s national and spiritual identity since the 1700s. Written with powerful prose, Natasha delivers a unique and intimate nature of Costa Rican slavery which was radically different than plantation slavery in other parts of the Americas. A provocative, first-of-its-kind perspective on a free Black community during the colonial period in Costa Rica, Finding La Negrita spans time and space as it captures their grapples with love and legacy, secrets and sacrifices, and the line between freedom and enslavement.
About the Author:
Natasha Gordon-Chipembere, Ph.D., is a professor of African Diasporic literature. She is the author of Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman (Palgrave), and her writing has been published in Essence Magazine and in Tico Times as the monthly series “Musings from An Afro-Costa Rican.” She…