Afro-Cuban costumbrismo [electronic resource] : from plantations to the slums / Rafael Ocasio.
Material type: TextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2012Description: xvii, 230 pISBN: 9780813043678 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Blacks in literature | Blacks -- Cuba -- History | Blacks -- Cuba -- Social conditions | Slavery -- Cuba | Cuban literature | Cuba -- Religion -- 20th century | Cuba -- Social life and customsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 860.9/97291 LOC classification: PQ7382 | .O26 2012Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
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