Afro-Cuban identity in postrevolutionary novel and film : inclusion, loss, and cultural resistance /

Afro-Cuban identity in postrevolutionary novel and film : inclusion, loss, and cultural resistance / Andrea Easley Morris.

This book examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. The author analyzes the artists{8217} participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government{8217}s revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions...

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Main Author: Morris, Andrea E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Co-published with Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012]
Subjects:
Cuban literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Race in literature.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
Motion pictures > Cuba > History > 20th century.
Black people in motion pictures.
Race in motion pictures.
Black people > Race identity > Cuba > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Contradictory approaches to race, from independence to revolution. Representing difference in colonial and republican settings
  • Slave rebellion and cultural resistance
  • Performing the mulata rumbera
  • Fragmented Cubanness by way of détour
  • Post-revolutionary identities in conflict. Black masculinity in crisis
  • Race, place, and marginality
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: the 1980s and beyond.

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