Title Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography / Emily A. Maguire.

Publication Info.	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2011]
	©2011

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 237 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and index.
Contents	Introduction: A folklore for the future: race and national narrative in Cuba -- Locating Afro-Cuban religion: Fernando Ortiz and Lydia Cabrera -- Beyond bongos in Montmartre: Lydia Cabrera and Alejo Carpentier imagine blackness -- The national art of signifyin(g): Nicolás Guillen and Lydia Cabrera -- Gender, genre, and ethnographic authority: Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston -- Epilogue: Textual straits: race and ethnographic literature since the Cuban revolution.
Summary	Examines how a cadre of writers reimagined the nation and re-valorized Afro-Cuban culture through a textual production that incorporated elements of the ethnographic with the literary.
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Subject	Cuban literature -- History and criticism.
	Cuban literature.
	Ethnology -- Cuba.
	Ethnology.
	Cuba.
	Black people -- Cuba -- Ethnic identity.
	Black people.
	Ethnicity.
	Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
	Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Maguire, Emily, 1972- Racial experiments in Cuban literature and ethnography. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2011 9780813037479 (DLC) 2011018994 (OCoLC)709674061
ISBN	9780813040530 (electronic book)
	0813040531 (electronic book)
	9780813037479
	0813037476

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