Black in Print

<p><b>Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.</b></p><p><i>Black in Print</i> examines the role of narrative from traditional writing to new media in conversations about race and belonging in the isthmus. It argues that the production circulation and consumption of stories has led to a trans-isthmian imaginary that splits the region along racial and geographic lines into a white-mestizo Pacific coast an Indigenous core and a Black Caribbean. Across five chapters Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar identifies a series of key moments in the history of the development of this imaginary: Independence Intervention Cold-War Post-Revolutionary and Digital Age. Gómez Menjívar's analysis ranges from literary beacons such as Rubén Darío and Miguel Ángel Asturias to less studied intellectuals such as Wingston González and Carl Rigby. The result is a fresh approach to race the region and its literature. <i>Black in Print</i> understands Central American Blackness as a set of shifting coordinates plotted on the axes of language geography and time as it moves through print media.</p>