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Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
Flora Conzalez Mandri
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Description for Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
hardcover. Examines the post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, this book reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. It shows how their accomplishments were silenced in official Cuban history and culture. Series: New World Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 7 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJC; 2ADS; AB; DSB; JFSJ1; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
In ""Guarding Cultural Memory"", Flora Gonzalez Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, she reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. Gonzalez Mandri considers the work of the poet and cultural critic Nancy Morejon, the poet Excilia Saldana, the filmmaker Gloria Rolando, and the artists Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Belkis Ayon. In their cultural representations these women conflate the artistic, the historical, and the personal to produce a transformative image of the black woman as a ... Read more
In ""Guarding Cultural Memory"", Flora Gonzalez Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women. Taking on the question of how African diaspora cultures practice remembrance, she reveals the ways in which these artists restage the confrontations between modernity and tradition. Gonzalez Mandri considers the work of the poet and cultural critic Nancy Morejon, the poet Excilia Saldana, the filmmaker Gloria Rolando, and the artists Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Belkis Ayon. In their cultural representations these women conflate the artistic, the historical, and the personal to produce a transformative image of the black woman as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
New World Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813925257
SKU
V9780813925257
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About Flora Conzalez Mandri
Flora Gonzalez Mandri, Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, is the author of Jose Donoso's House of Fiction: A Dramatic Construction of Time and Place and coeditor and contranslator, with Rosamond Rosenmeier, of In the Vortex of the Cyclone: Selected Poems by Excilia Saldana.
Reviews for Guarding Cultural Memory: Afro-Cuban Women in Literature and the Arts
Guarding Cultural Memory contributes much to our understanding of an 'erased' chapter of Cuban culture while enhancing at the same time the crucial role that Afro-Cuban culture played in the formation of a national culture.... A much-needed cultural and historical archive. - Adriana Mendez-Rodenas, University of Iowa, author of Gender and Nationalism in Colonial Cuba: The Travels of Santa Cruz ... Read more