Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums /
Ocasio, Rafael.
Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums / [electronic resource] : Rafael Ocasio. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012. - xvii, 230 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Suarez y Romero -- Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiografia 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.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780813043678 (electronic bk.)
Blacks in literature.
Blacks--History.--Cuba
Blacks--Social conditions.--Cuba
Slavery--Cuba.
Cuban literature.
Cuba--Religion--20th century.
Cuba--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
PQ7382 / .O26 2012
860.9/97291
Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums / [electronic resource] : Rafael Ocasio. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012. - xvii, 230 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Suarez y Romero -- Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiografia 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.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780813043678 (electronic bk.)
Blacks in literature.
Blacks--History.--Cuba
Blacks--Social conditions.--Cuba
Slavery--Cuba.
Cuban literature.
Cuba--Religion--20th century.
Cuba--Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
PQ7382 / .O26 2012
860.9/97291