Description: Unbecoming Blackness : The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America, Paperback by Lopez, Antonio, ISBN 0814765475, ISBN-13 9780814765470, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK 2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the . align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other Afro-Latinas/os. In the works of Alberto O&;Farrill, Eusebia Cosme, Rómulo Lachatañeré, and others, Afro-Cubanness articulates the African diasporic experience in ways that deprive negro and mulato configurations of an exclusive link with Cuban nationalism. Instead, what is invoked is an &;unbecoming&; relationship between Afro-Cubans in the and their domestic black counterparts. The transformations in Cuban racial identity across the hemisphere, represented powerfully in the literary and performance cultures of Afro-Cubans in the ., provide the fullest account of a transnational Cuba, one in which the Cuban American emerges as Afro-Cuban-American, and the Latino as Afro-Latino.
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Book Title: Unbecoming Blackness : The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban Americ
Number of Pages: 282 Pages
Publication Name: Unbecoming Blackness: the Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 2012
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 386 g
Author: Antonio Lopez
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Paperback
