This analysis of the roots of Afro-Cuban literary identity in the early independence period explores the development of an ethnographic dialog in the literature of Lydia Cabrera and her
contemporaries. The work explores the ways in which "blackness," an integral feature of Cuban identity, interacted with new cultural forces of political independence and the forces of economic
influence by the United States. Maguire is a professor of Spanish at Northwestern University. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
