The Merchant of Havana : The Jew in the Cuban Abolitionist Archive.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
Cover -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Notional Jew: Judaizing the Merchant -- 2. Racial Prescriptions and Inscriptions in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab (1841) -- 3. Racial Alchemy and Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La cuarterona (1867) -- 4. The Jewish Escape Hatch from Cuba Impossible: Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdés (1882) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
The rise of anti-Semitism in Cuba, the need to vilify in an age of uncertainty.