Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography [electronic resource] /
Maguire, Emily,1972-
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
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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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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Black people
Ethnography
Cuban literature