Charcoal & cinnamon : the politics of color in Spanish Caribbean literature / Claudette M. Williams.
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| Other title: | Charcoal and cinnamon. |
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| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
c2000.
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Table of 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.