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Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Maguire, Emily, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.