The merchant of Havana : the Jew in the Cuban abolitionist archive / / Stephen Silverstein

• Autore: Silverstein Stephen <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Nashville, Tennessee : , : Vanderbilt University Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (206 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.36209729109034
• Soggetto topico: Antislavery movements - Cuba - History - 19th century; Jewish slave traders - History - 19th century; Jews in literature; Jews - Cuba - History - 19th century; Antisemitism - Cuba - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Cuba Ethnic relations
• Classificazione: HIS041010LIT004100
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The notional Jew: judaizing the merchant -- Racial prescriptions and inscriptions in Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841) -- Racial alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La Cuarterona (1867) -- The Jewish escape hatch from Cuba impossible: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882)
• Sommario/riassunto: "As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"--
• Titolo autorizzato: The merchant of Havana
• ISBN: 0-8265-0384-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798718803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II