Lydia Cabrera and the construction of an Afro-Cuban cultural identity /

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Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alterna...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rodríguez-Mangual, Edna M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004.
Series:Envisioning Cuba.
Subjects:
Cabrera, Lydia.
Cabrera, Lydia, > 1900-
Cabrera, Lydia
Cabrera, Lydia, > 1899-1991.
1900-2000.
Black people > Cultural assimilation > Cuba.
Black people > Cuba > Ethnic identity.
Black people > Cuba > Folklore.
Personnes noires > Acculturation > Cuba.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Identité ethnique.
Personnes noires > Cuba > Folklore.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Black people
Black people > Cultural assimilation
Black people > Ethnic identity
Civilization > African influences
15.85 history of America.
Blacks.
Cultural identity.
Cuba > Civilization > African influences.
Cuba > Civilisation > Influence africaine.
Cuba
Cuba.
Folklore
Folklore.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The point of departure : Fernando Ortiz and Afro-Cuban studies
  • A disarticulation of the gaze : exploring modes of authority and representation in the rhetoric of El monte
  • The death of the king : between anthropology and fiction
  • The anthropologist's exile : nation and simulacrum.

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