Miguel Arnedo-Gómez

Uniting Blacks in a Raceless Nation (eBook, PDF)

Blackness, Afro-Cuban Culture, and Mestizaje in the Prose and Poetry of Nicolás Guillén

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611489828
• Artikelnr.: 74830990

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Nicolás Guillén's
1930s Essays on Racial Inequality Chapter Three: Guillén'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 número 6" Chapter Five: Renegrifying
Sóngoro Cosongo and "La canción del bongó" Chapter Six: Guillén'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