Love and (Dis)Possession: Transacting Power Between White Man and Black Woman in Nancy Morejón's Poetry

Abstract

This essay comparatively analyzes the transaction of colonial power between the bodies of a white slaver and a Black enslaved woman in the poems “Amo a mi amo” (1986) and “Mujer negra” (1975) by Afrocubanist writer Nancy Morejón. The enslaved Black female voices of both poems address abuse, trauma, and pain to subvert colonial power and reclaim agency over the collective body of the Afro-Caribbean woman across generations.