Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
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Engelska
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274
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2016-05-12
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Bucknell University Press
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Black & white illustrations
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234 x 160 x 25 mm
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545 g
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9781611487589

Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation

Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicols Guilln

av Miguel Arnedo-Gmez
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2016-05-12
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The Cuban writer Nicols Guilln 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 Guillns work enhance black Cuban and Afro-Cuban identities. Miguel Arnedo-Gmez explores this paradox in Guillns 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-Gmez shows Guillns work to contain a message of black unity aimed at the black middle classes. Furthermore, against a tendency to seek a single authorial consciousnessbe it mulatto or based on a North American construction of blacknessGuillns prose and poetry are also characterized as a struggle for a viable identity in a socio-culturally heterogeneous society.
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Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation is a fascinating study of the life and art of the national poet of a nation we considered an enemy until recently. This well-researched work sheds light on many unknown dimensions of his life, poetry, and struggle. Equally, it is a study of the black rights movement in Cuba and shows how advanced it was as compared to the United States. It is the best biography of Guilln. It is a required reading for black rights activists and scholars as well as poets and students of poetry. * The Washington BookReview * After reading this book, I must commend the author for his serious investigations into the development of anxiety in many Caribbean thinkers who reflect on the consequences of the meeting of several races in the Caribbean basin. Further, this book is an excellent contribution to many other books about Afro-Caribbean literature, and it is suitable for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for academics who work on the complex theme of Cuban identity. [Translated from original Spanish] * Revista Iberoamericana *

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Miguel Arnedo-Gmez 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).

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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 Nicols Guillns 1930s Essays on Racial Inequality Chapter Three: Guillns 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 nmero 6 Chapter Five: Renegrifying Sngoro Cosongo and La cancin del bong Chapter Six: Guillns Black Masculinist Visions of the Mulatas Cross-Racial Proclivities Conclusion: Reaffirming the Afro-Cuban Subject, from Mestizaje to Heterogeneity Bibliography Index About the Author

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