ISBN:
9780826521095
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 205 Seiten
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2016
DDC:
306.3/6209729109/034
Keywords:
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis
;
Tapia y Rivera, Alejandro
;
Villaverde, Cirilo
;
Jewish slave traders History 19th century
;
Antislavery movements History 19th century
;
Jews in literature
;
Jews History 19th century
;
Antisemitism History 19th century
;
Cuba Ethnic relations
Abstract:
"As Cuba industrialized in the nineteenth century, two ideological forces appeared: anti-Semitism and abolitionism. As the antislavery movement became organized in Cuba, the argument grew that Jews participated in the African slave trade and in New World slavery, and that this participation gave Jews extraordinary influence in the new Cuban economy and culture. Because of the decidedly small Jewish population on the island in this era, this form of anti-Semitism sprang almost exclusively from mythological beliefs"--
Abstract:
The notional Jew: judaizing the merchant -- Racial prescriptions and inscriptions in Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841) -- Racial alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La Cuarterona (1867) -- The Jewish escape hatch from Cuba impossible: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes (1882)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-198) and index
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