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This original study explores the works of four of Cuba's most renowned intellectuals and the various ways they created and proposed a particular view of Cuban identity. --Choice Maguire's lucid study enables the reader to consider how early postcolonial writings of Cuban nationhood sought to reconcile the varied diasporic, religious and cultural forces in its history. --Wasafiri An insightful analysis of the interrelationship in Cuba between literature and ethnography in the construction of a discourse on nation. --Revista de Estudios Hispanicos A welcome addition to . . . studies of racial representation in post-independence Cuba. --e-misferica An invaluable guide to the unresolved racial dilemma of constructing a Cuban national narrative. --Research in African Literatures

This original study explores the works of four of Cuba's most renowned intellectuals and the various ways they created and proposed a particular view of Cuban identity. --Choice Maguire's lucid study enables the reader to consider how early postcolonial writings of Cuban nationhood sought to reconcile the varied diasporic, religious and cultural forces in its history. --Wasafiri An insightful analysis of the interrelationship in Cuba between literature and ethnography in the construction of a discourse on nation. --Revista de Estudios Hisp�nicos A welcome addition to . . . studies of racial representation in post-independence Cuba. --e-misferica An invaluable guide to the unresolved racial dilemma of constructing a Cuban national narrative. --Research in African Literatures

"“An important contribution to U.S.-Caribbean dialogues in the field of Afro-Diasporic literatures and cultures.” ―Jossianna Arroyo, author of Travestismos culturales: literature y etnografía en Cuba y Brasil “Maguire’s close readings of women ethnographers like Lydia Cabrera and Zora Neale Hurston result in a very original approach to dealing with the topic of race and how it overlaps with the categories of gender. Outstanding work!” —James Pancrazio, author of The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition ""Ingeniously tells the story of the tensions between artist and ethnographer that inform the Cuban national narrative of the twentieth century. Racial Experiments in Cuban Literature and Ethnography is essential reading for a large audience of students and scholars alike within Caribbean, American, and African Diaspora studies."" —Jaqueline Loss, author of Cosmopolitanisms and Latin America"

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Emily A. Maguire is assistant professor of Spanish at Northwestern University.

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