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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457559203321

Autore

Morris Andrea E

Titolo

Afro-Cuban identity in post-revolutionary novel and film [[electronic resource] ] : inclusion, loss, and cultural resistance / / Andrea Easley Morris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Bucknell University Press, : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc., 2012

ISBN

1-280-66361-8

9786613640543

1-61148-423-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

863/.640997291

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 deĢtour -- Post-revolutionary identities in conflict. Black masculinity in crisis -- Race, place, and marginality -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: the 1980s and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

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.