Imaging the Chinese in Cuban literature and culture / Ignacio L opez-Calvo.

By:

L opez-Calvo, Ignacio

Publication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2008.Description: xii, 227 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780813032405
0813032407
1552937305
9781552937303
9780813034454
0813034450

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

DDC classification:

860.9/3529951 22

LOC classification:

PQ7372 .L67 2008

Other classification:

18.33

Online resources:

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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

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.

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