AfroCuba An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture

Name: AfroCuba An Anthology of Cuban Writing on Race, Politics and Culture
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ISBN: 9781875284412

ISBN-10: 1875284419

ISBN-13: 9781875284412

Edition: Revised

Authors: Jean Stubbs, Pedro Perez Sarduy

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This anthology looks at the AfroCuban experience through the eyes of the island's writers, scholars and artists. "A rich portrait of AfroCuba-one of the most vibrant and least well-documented of the black Caribbean diasporas."-Stuart Hall

Book details

List price: $19.95
Publisher: Ocean Press
Publication date: 7/1/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 309
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgements and note on terminology


Introduction: The rite of social communion



For a Cuban integration of whites and blacks




The die is cast


The 19th century black fear



Mariana and Maceo



People without a history



Drum ballad



Claudio Jose Domingo Brindis de Salas



Back to Africa



Solutions to the black problem



Times I walk with my father



The 20th century black question




Myth and reality


Imaginary dialogue on folklore



An initiation ceremony in Regla de Palo



The principle of multiple representation



Abakua signs



Sara, one way or another



The Orishas in Cuba



The strokes of magical realism in Manuel Mendive



Bembesiana



Asere



Ifa says



Ofumelli



Maria Antonia



Adire and broken time




Redrawing the line


Birth of a national culture



A white problem: Reinterpreting Cecilia Valdes



The black and white in the narrative of Alejo Carpentier



Runaway story



Race and nation



Rethinking the plantation



Matilda



The maids



Questions only she can answer



The true door



Images and icons



Rey Spencer's swing



Notes on contributors


Glossary


Bibliographical note


Index