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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819319803321

Autore

Rodriguez-Mangual Edna M

Titolo

Lydia Cabrera and the construction of an Afro-Cuban cultural identity / / Edna M. Rodriguez-Mangual

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004

ISBN

979-88-908786-8-7

0-8078-7628-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Envisioning Cuba

Disciplina

868/.6409

Soggetti

Blacks - Cultural assimilation - Cuba

Blacks - Cuba - Ethnic identity

Blacks - Cuba

Cuba Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Point of Departure: Fernando Ortiz and Afro-Cuban Studies; 2 A Disarticulation of the Gaze: Exploring Modes of Authority and Representation in the Rhetoric of El monte; 3 The Death of the King: Between Anthropology and Fiction; 4 The Anthropologist's Exile: Nation and Simulacrum; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991) collected oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is often viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz. Edna Rodriguez-Mangual challenges this, proposing that her work is an alternative to the hegemonizing national myth of Cuba.