Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film (eBook)

Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance

Andrea Easley Morris (Autor)

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2011
204 Seiten
Bucknell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61148-423-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Afro-Cuban Identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film examines the changing discourse on race as portrayed in Cuban novels and films produced after 1959. Andrea Easley Morris analyzes the artists' participation in and questioning of the revolutionary government's revision of national identity to include the unique experience and contributions of Cuban men and women of African descent. While the Cuban revolution brought sweeping changes that vastly improved the material condition of many Afro-Cubans, at the time overrepresented among Cuba's poor and marginalized, the government's official position was that racial inequities had been resolved as early as 1962. Although a more open dialogue on race was cut short, the work of several novelists and film directors from the late 1960s and 70s expresses the need to explore what was gained and lost by Afro-Cubans in the early years of the revolution, among them Manuel Granados, Miguel Barnet, Nivaria Tejera, Sara Gomez, Cesar Leante, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Sergio Giral, and Manuel Cofino. Their works participate in the process of redefining Cuban national identity that took place after the revolution and, more specifically, they explore the place of Afro-Cuban identity within a broader notion of revolutionary "e;Cubanness."e; This occurs through an emphasis on Afro-Cuban cultural practices that have constituted forms of resistance to colonial and neo-colonial oppression. This book examines the identity conflicts portrayed in these works and takes into account the artists' negotiation of their own status within the revolutionary context by looking at the narrative strategies used to address racial issues within the constraints placed on cultural production in Cuba after 1962.

Autor

Andrea Easley Morris is assistant professor of Spanish at Louisiana State University and specializes in Hispanic Caribbean literature and culture. Her research to date deals with issues of cultural identity in relation to music and dance, space, and embodiment. Dr. Morris enjoys teaching service-learning courses on Latin American and Latino cultures that engage students in the local immigrant community.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1 Contradictory Approaches to Race, from Independence to Revolution Part One: Representing Difference in Colonial and Republican Settings Chapter 2 Slave Rebellion and Cultural resistance Chapter 3 Performing the Mulata Rumbera Chapter 4 Fragmented Cubanness by Way of DétourPart Two: Post-Revolutionary Identities in Conflict Chapter 5 Black Masculinity in Crisis Chapter 6 Race, Place, and Marginality Conclusion Epilogue: The 1980s and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.11.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Latin American History • Latin American literature • Literary Studies • World History
• ISBN-10: 1-61148-423-5 / 1611484235
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61148-423-6 / 9781611484236