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.
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
2011.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.


