afro-cuban women in literature and the arts
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mandri, Flora Gonzalez
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- LAT 54 2006
- Thesaurus
- diaspora, etniciteit, dichters, kunstenaressen, zwarte vrouwen, autobiografieën, Cuba, 20e eeuw
- Description
- In this book Mandri examines the 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. .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 and by valorizing certain aesthetic and religious traditions in relation to a post modern artistic sensibility.