Afro-Cuban Costumbrismo: From Plantations to the Slums

by Rafael Ocasio

Book Overview

"Ocasio has found a mid-point between the vision of Costumbrista writing as a source of the Afro-Cuban historical and literary experience and criticizing it for its biases and shortfalls regarding early depictions of blacks. An interesting interdisciplinary blend of literature through a sociological historical optic."--Dawn Duke, author of Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment: Toward a Legacy of Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian Women Writers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813061768
• ISBN13: 9780813061764
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"