| Description |
xii, 174 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-164) and index. |
| Contents |
"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 -- Sexual myths and national icons -- Disgust and desire : the politics of interracial sex -- Miscegenation, hybridity, and the nation -- 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. |
| Subject |
Caribbean literature (Spanish) -- History and criticism.
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Women, Black, in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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| Spine Title |
Charcoal and cinnamon |
| ISBN |
081301736X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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