Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation: Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén - Couverture souple

Arnedo-Gómez, Miguel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1611487609 ISBN 13 : 9781611487602

Editeur : UPC, 2019

Synopsis

The Cuban writer Nicolás Guillén 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 Guillén's work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities. Miguel Arnedo-Gómez explores this paradox in Guillén'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-Gómez shows Guillén'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-Guillén's prose and poetry are also characterized as a struggle for a viable identity in a socio-culturally heterogeneous society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Miguel Arnedo-Gómez is a senior lecturer in the Spanish and Latin American Studies Program at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and the author of Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry (2006).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: UPC
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611487609
• ISBN 13: 9781611487602
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 273
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• Personne responsable: non disponible