Lydia Cabrera and the construction of an Afro-Cuban cultural identity / Edna M. Rodriguez-Mangual.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodríguez-Mangual, Edna M.

Series:

Envisioning Cuba.

Envisioning Cuba

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabrera, Lydia--Contributions in Cuban ethnology.

Cabrera, Lydia.

Black people--Cultural assimilation--Cuba.

Black people.

Black people--Cuba--Ethnic identity.

Black people--Cuba--Folklore.

Cuba--Civilization--African influences.

Cuba.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Point of Departure: Fernando Ortiz and Afro-Cuban Studies; 2 A Disarticulation of the Gaze: Exploring Modes of Authority and Representation in the Rhetoric of El monte; 3 The Death of the King: Between Anthropology and Fiction; 4 The Anthropologist's Exile: Nation and Simulacrum; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index.

ISBN:

9798890878687

9780807876282

0807876283

OCLC:

476237395