Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction: A Folklore for the Future: Race and National Narrative in Cuba 1 1. Locating Afro-Cuban Religion: Fernando Ortiz and Lydia Cabrera 29 2. Beyond Bongos in Montmartre: Lydia Cabrera and Alejo Carpentier Imagine Blackness 63 3. The National Art of Signifyin(g): Nicolás Guillén and Lydia Cabrera 104 4. Gender, Genre, and Ethnographic Authority: Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston 143 Epilogue: Textual Straits: Race and Ethnographic Literature since the Cuban Revolution 173 Notes 189 Selected Bibliography 209 Index 227 ...