Afro-Cuban Cultural Politics and Aesthetics in the Works of Miguel Barnet and Nancy Morejón
Title | Afro-Cuban Cultural Politics and Aesthetics in the Works of Miguel Barnet and Nancy Morejón PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Sue Howe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 690 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Black people |
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Afro-Cuban Cultural Politics and Aesthetics in the Works of Miguel ........
Title | Afro-Cuban Cultural Politics and Aesthetics in the Works of Miguel ........ PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Sue Howe |
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Release | 1995 |
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Transgression and Conformity
Title | Transgression and Conformity PDF eBook |
Author | Linda S. Howe |
Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780299197308 |
Defining the political and aesthetic tensions that have shaped Cuban culture for over forty years, Linda Howe explores the historical and political constraints imposed upon Cuban artists and intellectuals during and after the Revolution. Focusing on the work of Afro-Cuban writers Nancy Morejón and prominent novelist Miguel Barnet, Howe exposes the complex relationship between Afro-Cuban intellectuals and government authorities as well as the racial issues present in Cuban culture.
Guarding Cultural Memory
Title | Guarding Cultural Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Flora María González Mandri |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780813925264 |
In Guarding Cultural Memory, Flora González Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, she reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. González Mandri considers the work of the poet and cultural critic Nancy Morejón, the poet Excilia Saldaña, the filmmaker Gloria Rolando, and the artists María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Belkis Ayón. In their cultural representations these women conflate the artistic, the historical, and the personal to produce a transformative image of the black woman as a forger of Cuban culture. They achieve this in several ways: by redefining autobiography as a creative expression for the convergence of the domestic and the national; by countering the eroticized image of the mulatta in favor of a mythical conception of the female body as a site for the engraving of cultural and national conflicts and resolutions; and by valorizing certain aesthetic and religious traditions in relation to a postmodern artistic sensibility Placing these artists in their historical context, González Mandri shows how their accomplishments were consistently silenced in official Cuban history and culture and explores the strategies through which culturally censored memories survived--and continue to survive--in a Caribbean country purported to have integrated its Hispanic and African peoples and heritages into a Cuban identity. The picture that finally emerges is one not only of exceptional artistic achievement but also of successful redefinitions of concepts of race, gender, and nation in the face of almost insurmountable cultural odds.
Singular Like a Bird
Title | Singular Like a Bird PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam DeCosta-Willis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Art |
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Dissertation Abstracts International
Title | Dissertation Abstracts International PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 532 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
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Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation
Title | Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation PDF eBook |
Author | Miguel Arnedo-Gómez |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2016-05-12 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611487595 |
The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén has traditionally been considered a poet of mestizaje, a term that, whilst denoting racial mixture, also refers to a homogenizing nationalist discourse that proclaims the harmonious nature of Cuban identity. Yet, many aspects of Guillén’s work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities. Miguel Arnedo-Gómez explores this paradox in Guillén’s pre-Cuban Revolution writings placing them alongside contemporaneous intellectual discourses that feigned adherence to the homogenizing ideology whilst upholding black interests. On the basis of links with these and other 1930s Cuban discourses, Arnedo-Gómez shows Guillén’s work to contain a message of black unity aimed at the black middle classes. Furthermore, against a tendency to seek a single authorial consciousness—be it mulatto or based on a North American construction of blackness—Guillén’s prose and poetry are also characterized as a struggle for a viable identity in a socio-culturally heterogeneous society.