The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean/The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition

Cuban Studies | January 1, 2006| | Copyright

Linden Lewis, ed. The Culture of Gender and Sexuality in the Caribbean. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. 328 pp; and James J. Pancrazio, The Logic of Fetishism: Alejo Carpentier and the Cuban Tradition. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2004. 296 pp.

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