In 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. In this breakthrough study,
Emily Maguire examines how a cadre of writers re-imagined 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, Nicolas Guillen, 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.
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