TY - BOOK AU - Ocasio,Rafael ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Afro-Cuban costumbrismo: from plantations to the slums AV - PQ7382 .O26 2012 U1 - 860.9/97291 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Gainesville PB - University Press of Florida KW - Blacks in literature KW - Blacks KW - Cuba KW - History KW - Social conditions KW - Slavery KW - Cuban literature KW - Religion KW - 20th century KW - Social life and customs KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1040662 ER -