{"product_id":"racial-experiments-in-cuban-literature-and-ethnography","title":"Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography","description":"\"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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily A. Maguire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Florida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/07\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813064802\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily A. Maguire\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of Spanish at Northwestern University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":53323822825770,"sku":"9780813064802","price":45.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/4553\/1946\/files\/img_b3138fe8-8509-4ba7-9873-98e65a643121.jpg?v=1793058258","url":"https:\/\/delvanta.shop\/products\/racial-experiments-in-cuban-literature-and-ethnography","provider":"Whitmore Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}