- Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 230 p.)
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Afro-Cuban costumbrismo (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Afro-Cuban costumbrismo (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012009922
- OCLC
- ssj0000754972
- Author
Ocasio, Rafael.
- Title
Afro-Cuban costumbrismo [electronic resource] : from plantations to the slums / Rafael Ocasio.
- Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-222) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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