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L opez-Calvo, Ignacio.

Imaging the Chinese in Cuban literature and culture / Ignacio L opez-Calvo. - Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2008. - xii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.

Chinese bondage -- Cuban Sinophobia -- Orientalism -- Chinese women as exotica -- Self-Orientalization -- Religious syncretism -- Painful transculturations -- Self-definition and the Chinos Mambises -- Exclusion and (mis)representation.

More than 150 years ago, over 150,000 Chinese people emigrated to Cuba. This book examines the representations of these immigrants in Cuban culture, from food to books to painting.

ISBN: 9780813032405 0813032407 1552937305 9781552937303 9780813034454 0813034450

Standard No.: 40015529373

Source: 99963837477 YBP

LCCN: 2008001589

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA874241 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014634283 Uk

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
Geschichte (umfassend)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cuban literature--History and criticism.
Cuban literature--Chinese influences.
18.33 Spanish-American literature.
Civilization--Chinese influences.
Cuban literature.
Literatur
Kulturbeziehungen
Spanish.
Chinese.
Literature.
Cultures.
Literatur.
Spanisch.
Motiv (Literatur)

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Cuba--Civilization--Chinese influences.
Cuba.
Cuba.
Chinesen.
Kuba.
Kuba.
China.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PQ7372 / .L67 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 860.9/3529951