Title:
Afro-Cuban costumbrismo from plantations to the slums
Author:
Ocasio, Rafael.
ISBN:
9780813043678
Publication Information:
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2012. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013)
Physical Description:
1 online resource (240 p.)
Contents:
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 Suárez y Romero -- Juan Francisco Manzano's autobiografía 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.
Abstract:
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.
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