Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Maguire, Emily, 1972-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
Subjects:	Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. Blacks > Cuba > Ethnic identity. Ethnology > Cuba. Cuban literature > History and criticism. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.