| Description |
xii, 174 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index. |
| Contents |
1. "The nice one ... and the other one" : the discourse of race and color. The beautiful mulata and the invisible Black woman ; Out of the literary wilderness : redeeming the Black woman -- 2. Sexual myths and national icons. Disgust and desire : the politics of interracial sex ; Miscegenation, hybridity, and the nation -- 3. From voiceless object to human subject : filling the historical vacuum. The Black matriarch in the closet ; Psychosocial dilemmas ; The sexual myth deconstructed ; Rescuing the slave woman ; Tragic mammies and passive workhorses ; The Black woman and the Cuban Revolution. |
| Provenance |
Ludmila Kapschutschenko-Schmitt Memorial Collection |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism.
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Caribbean literature (Spanish) |
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Women, Black, in literature. |
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Race relations in literature.
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Race relations in literature. |
| Spine Title |
Charcoal and cinnamon |
| ISBN |
081301736X cloth alkaline paper |
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9780813017365 cloth alkaline paper |
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