Afro-Cuban costumbrismo : from plantations to the slums / / Rafael Ocasio.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 230 p. |
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Table of 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 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.