Antonio Lopez

Unbecoming Blackness (eBook, PDF)

The Diaspora Cultures of Afro-Cuban America

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio Lopez 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.Lpez shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in theU.S. 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, Rmulo Lachataer 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 "e;unbecoming"e; relationship between Afro-Cubans in the U.S 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 U.S., 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: NYU Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814765487
• Artikelnr.: 44772878

Autorenporträt

Antonio López is Assistant Professor of English at George Washington University.