Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography
By: Emily A. Maguire
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780813037479
Subjects: Ethnic identity; Blacks; Ethnography; Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature; History and criticism; Cuban literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A folklore for the future: race and national narrative in Cuba; title: Locating Afro-Cuban religion: Fernando Ortiz and Lydia Cabrera; title: Beyond bongos in Montmartre: Lydia Cabrera and Alejo Carpentier imagine blackness; title: The national art of signifyin(g): Nicolás Guillen and Lydia Cabrera; title: Gender, genre, and ethnographic authority: Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston; title: Epilogue: Textual straits: race and ethnographic literature since the Cuban revolution.