Table of Contents:
  • The notional Jew: judaizing the merchant
  • Racial prescriptions and inscriptions in Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841)
  • Racial alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La Cuarterona (1867)
  • The Jewish escape hatch from Cuba impossible: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882).