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Margaret (Molly) Olsen |
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<< back to Faculty Ph.D., Tulane University, 1998Latin-American Colonial and Afro-Hispanic Literature Margaret M. Olsen specializes in literature of the Caribbean basin and has worked on Afro-Caribbean texts from both the colonial and contemporary periods. Her central research focuses on the location and analysis of African voices during the early period of colonization. Through a consideration of rhetorical structures and historical circumstances in documents from the colonial period, she strives to reveal the complex levels at which peoples of African descent participated in the writing of the New World. Her publications include "Negros horros and cimarrones on the Legal Frontiers of the Caribbean: Accessing the African Voice in Colonial Spanish American Texts," Research in African Literatures, 29.4 (Winter 1998); "African Reinscription of Body and Space in New Granada," in the critical anthology Mapping Colonial Spanish America: Places and Commonplaces of Identity, Culture and Experience (Bucknell University Press: 2002); and Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias (University Press of Florida: 2004). |
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