Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography:
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Main Author: Maguire, Emily (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Gainesville University Press of Florida ©2011
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Online Access:DE-1046
DE-1047
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index
Introduction: A folklore for the future: race and national narrative in Cuba -- Locating Afro-Cuban religion: Fernando Ortiz and Lydia Cabrera -- Beyond bongos in Montmartre: Lydia Cabrera and Alejo Carpentier imagine blackness -- The national art of signifyin(g): Nicolás Guillen and Lydia Cabrera -- Gender, genre, and ethnographic authority: Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston -- Epilogue: Textual straits: race and ethnographic literature since the Cuban revolution
Examines how a cadre of writers reimagined the nation and re-valorized Afro-Cuban culture through a textual production that incorporated elements of the ethnographic with the literary
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 237 pages)
ISBN:0813037476
0813040531
9780813037479
9780813040530

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