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Afro-Cuban costumbrismo : from plantations to the slums / Rafael Ocasio.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ocasio, Rafael.
- Series:
- Florida James Joyce series.
- Ebook Central (Collection)
- The Florida James Joyce series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people in literature.
- Black people--Cuba--History.
- Black people.
- Black people--Cuba--Social conditions.
- Slavery--Cuba.
- Slavery.
- Cuban literature.
- Cuba--Religion--20th century.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4391-3
- 0-8130-4367-0
- OCLC:
- 815667413
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