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Undoing empire : race and nation in the mulatto Caribbean /

Undoing Empire brings to light the story of what Jos F. Buscaglia-Salgado terms mulatajethe ways Caribbean aesthetics offer the possibility of the ultimate erasure of racial difference. Undoing Empire gives a broad panorama stretching from the complex politics of medieval Iberian societies to the be...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Buscaglia-Salgado, José F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Tales of the Alhambra : Washington Irving and the immaculate conception of America
  • Contesting the ideal : from the Moors of Hispania to the morenos of Hispaniola
  • Bartolomé de Las Casas at the end of time, or, How the Indies were won and lost
  • The creole in his labyrinth : the disquieting order of the being unbecoming
  • Undoing the ideal : the life and passion of the mulatto
  • Moors in heaven : a second Columbus and the return of the Zaharenian curse.