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.