Sugar's Secrets

by Kutzinski, Vera M.

• ISBN13: 9780813914671
• ISBN10: 0813914671
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Virginia Pr

Summary

How and why has Cuba's national identity been cast in terms of a cross-cultural synthesis called mestizaje, and what roles have race, gender, sexuality, and class played in the construction of that synthesis? What specific cultural, political, and economic interests does mestizaje represent? Exploring these and other questions, Vera Kutzinski focuses on images of the mulata in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Cuban poetry, fiction, and visual arts. These images, she argues, are at the heart of Cuba's peculiar form of multiculturalism.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cuban Color	p. 1
Imperfect Bodies	p. 17
Caramel Candy For Sale	p. 43
Placido's Pastoral	p. 81
Filomena's Law	p. 101
Antidotes to Wall Street	p. 134
Sublime Masculinity	p. 163
Notes	p. 201
Select Bibliography	p. 253
Index	p. 269
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