Charcoal & cinnamon : the politics of color in Spanish Caribbean literature /

"Charcoal and Cinnamon explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities." "While various studies have explored this...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Williams, Claudette
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2000.
Temas:
Caribbean literature (Spanish) > History and criticism.
Women, Black, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Littérature antillaise (espagnole) > Histoire et critique.
Noires dans la littérature.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Caribbean literature (Spanish)
Race relations in literature
Women, Black, in literature
Ethnische Beziehungen > Motiv
Geschichte
Literatur
Rassenpolitik
Spanisch
Schwarze Frau > Motiv
Spaans.
Letterkunde.
Vrouwen.
Zwarten.
Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
Weibliche Schwarze (Motiv)
Hispanophone Karibik
Karibik
Spanisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. "The nice one ... and the other one" : the discourse of race and color. The beautiful mulata and the invisible Black woman ; Out of the literary wilderness : redeeming the Black woman
  • 2. Sexual myths and national icons. Disgust and desire : the politics of interracial sex ; Miscegenation, hybridity, and the nation
  • 3. From voiceless object to human subject : filling the historical vacuum. The Black matriarch in the closet ; Psychosocial dilemmas ; The sexual myth deconstructed ; Rescuing the slave woman ; Tragic mammies and passive workhorses ; The Black woman and the Cuban Revolution.

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