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Afro-Cuban costumbrismo : from plantations to the slums
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Afro-Cuban costumbrismo : from plantations to the slums / Rafael Ocasio.
ISBN
9780813041643 (alk. paper)
0813041643 (alk. paper)
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
Physical Description
xvii, 230 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 10, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: nineteenth-century costumbrista writers on the slave trade and on black traditions in Cuba
Cuban costumbrista portraits of slaves in sugarmills: essays by Anselmo Suárez y Romero
Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiografía de un esclavo: self-characterization of an urban mulato
Fino slave
Urban slaves and freed blacks: black women's objectification and erotic taboos
The costumbristas' views of manly black males: uppity blacks and thugs
Depictions of the horrific "unseen": Cuban Creole religious practices
Conclusion. Costumbrista essays on blacks: nineteenth-century preconceived notions of civility.
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