Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture

Contents

Contents Foreword by Evelyn Hu-DeHart ix Acknowledgments xiii A Note on the Translation xv 1. Introduction 1 Part 1. A Hostile Path to Hybridity 2. Chinese Bondage 29 3. Cuban Sinophobia 46 Part 2. Strategies for Entering and Leaving Chineseness 4. Orientalism 61 5. Chinese Women as Exotica 72 6. Self-Orientalization 80 Part 3. Cross-Cultural Heterogeneity and Hybridization 7. Religious Syncretism 93 8. Painful Transculturations 106 Part 4. Beyond Identity: Ongoing Identitarian Sedimentations 9. Self-Definition and the Chinos Mambises 119 10. Exclusion and (Mis)representation 134 11. Conclusion 145 Epilogue 155 Notes 165 Bibliography 209 Chronological List of Works 221 Index 223 ...