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Author Williams, Claudette

Title Charcoal & cinnamon : the politics of color in Spanish Caribbean literature / Claudette M. Williams
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 174 pages)
Contents 1. "The nice one ... and the other one" : the discourse of race and color. The beautiful mulata and the invisible Black woman ; Out of the literary wilderness : redeeming the Black woman -- 2. Sexual myths and national icons. Disgust and desire : the politics of interracial sex ; Miscegenation, hybridity, and the nation -- 3. From voiceless object to human subject : filling the historical vacuum. The Black matriarch in the closet ; Psychosocial dilemmas ; The sexual myth deconstructed ; Rescuing the slave woman ; Tragic mammies and passive workhorses ; The Black woman and the Cuban Revolution
Summary "Charcoal and Cinnamon explores the continuing redefinition of women of African descent in the Caribbean, focusing on the manner in which literature has influenced their treatment and contributed to the formation of their shifting identities." "While various studies have explored this subject, much of the existing research harbors a blindness to the literature of the non-English-speaking territories. Claudette Williams bases her analyses on poetry and prose from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic and enhances it by comparing these writings with the literatures of the English- and French-speaking Caribbean territories."
"Though the main focus is on literary works, the book will also be a reference for courses on Caribbean history, sociology, and psychology."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-164) and index
Notes English
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Subject Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism
Women, Black, in literature.
Race relations in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese.
Caribbean literature (Spanish)
Race relations in literature
Women, Black, in literature
Ethnische Beziehungen Motiv
Geschichte
Literatur
Rassenpolitik
Spanisch
Schwarze Frau Motiv
Spaans.
Letterkunde.
Vrouwen.
Zwarten.
Rassenbeziehung (Motiv)
Weibliche Schwarze (Motiv)
Hispanophone Karibik
Karibik
Spanisch.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813024161
9780813024165
Other Titles Charcoal and cinnamon