Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums /

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.

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Hlavní autor: Ocasio, Rafael
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012.
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Obsah:
  • 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.