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Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation

Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry o
  • ISBN-13: 9781611487602
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Miguel Arnedo-Gomez
  • Price: AUD $96.99
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  • Local release date: 14/10/2019
  • Format: Paperback 324 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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The Cuban writer Nicolas Guillen 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 Guillen's work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities. Miguel Arnedo-Gomez explores this paradox in Guillen'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-Gomez shows Guillen'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-Guillen's prose and poetry are also characterized as a struggle for a viable identity in a socio-culturally heterogeneous society.
A Note on Translations Acknowledgments Introduction: Chapter One: Afro-Cuban Reformulations of Afrocubanismo and Mestizaje in 1930s Cuba Chapter Two: Racism and the Myth of Racial Equality in Nicolas Guillen's 1930s Essays on Racial Inequality Chapter Three: Guillen's Afro-Cuban Other and Black Intraracial Discrimination in Motivos de son Chapter Four: The Search for a Mulatto Identity in Motivos de son, "Balada de los dos abuelos," "El apellido," and "Son numero 6" Chapter Five: Renegrifying Songoro Cosongo and "La cancion del bongo" Chapter Six: Guillen's Black Masculinist Visions of the Mulata's Cross-Racial Proclivities Conclusion: Reaffirming the Afro-Cuban Subject, from Mestizaje to Heterogeneity Bibliography Index About the Author
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