{"product_id":"racial-experiments-in-cuban-literature-and-ethnography-paperback","title":"Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmily A. Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An important contribution to U.S.-Caribbean dialogues in the field of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures.\"--Jossianna Arroyo, author of \u003ci\u003eTravestismos culturales: literature y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Maguire's close readings of women ethnographers like Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston result in a very original approach to dealing with the topic of race and how it overlaps with the categories of gender. Outstanding work!\"--James Pancrazio, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Ingeniously tells the story of the tensions between artist and ethnographer that inform the Cuban national narrative of the twentieth century. \u003ci\u003eRacial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for a large audience of students and scholars alike within Caribbean, American, and African Diaspora studies.\"--Jaqueline Loss, author of \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitanisms and Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of independence from Spain in 1898, Cuba's intellectual avant-garde struggled to cast their country as a modern nation. They grappled with the challenges presented by the postcolonial situation in general and with the location of blackness within a narrative of Cuban-ness in particular. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this breakthrough study, Emily Maguire examines how a cadre of writers reimagined the nation and re-valorized Afro-Cuban culture through a textual production that incorporated elements of the ethnographic with the literary. Singling out the work of Lydia Cabrera as emblematic of the experimentation with genre that characterized the age, Maguire constructs a series of counterpoints that place Cabrera's work in dialogue with that of her Cuban contemporaries--including Fernando Ortiz, Nicolás Guillén, and Alejo Carpentier. An illuminating final chapter on Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston widens the scope to contextualize Cuban texts within a hemispheric movement to represent black culture. \u003cb\u003eEmily A. Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Spanish at Northwestern University.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily A. Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Spanish at Northwestern University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.57 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52636649357619,"sku":"9780813064802","price":50.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/D5XCLCk4AC9780813064802.webp?v=1762275461","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/racial-experiments-in-cuban-literature-and-ethnography-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}