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Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography / Emily A. Maguire.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 237 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813040530
  • 0813040531
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography.DDC classification:
  • 860.9/97291 23
LOC classification:
  • PQ7373 .M34 2011eb
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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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.

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