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Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums
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Afro-Cuban costumbrismo [electronic resource] : from plantations to the slums / Rafael Ocasio.
ISBN
9780813043678
0813041643 (alk. paper)
9780813041643 (alk. paper)
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description
1 online resource (240 p.)
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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.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Complete Supplement.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Literature Supplement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 11, 2013
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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