Afro-Cuban costumbrismo
Subtitle: from plantations to the slums
By: Rafael Ocasio
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813041643
Subjects: Social life and customs; Blacks in literature; Blacks; Slavery; Religion; Social conditions; Cuban literature; History
Description: A broad examination of representations of Afro-Cuban religious themes in literature and popular arts, focusing on white authors of Costumbrismo literature represented black culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: nineteenth-century costumbrista writers on the slave trade and on black traditions in Cuba; title: Cuban costumbrista portraits of slaves in sugarmills: essays by Anselmo Suárez y Romero; title: Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiografía de un esclavo: self-characterization of an urban mulato; title: Fino slave; title: Urban slaves and freed blacks: black women's objectification and erotic taboos; title: The costumbristas' views of manly black males: uppity blacks and thugs; title: Depictions of the horrific "unseen": Cuban Creole religious practices; title: Conclusion. Costumbrista essays on blacks: nineteenth-century preconceived notions of civility.